Quotation Explorer - 'Able'

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from. - Joss Whedon

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you. - John Green

When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simple; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah y

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able. - Martin Luther King Jr.

It's just incrediable if I play a game, I think don't I?If I watch a film, I just finish a book... - Deyth Banger

We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake our thirst. - William Hill

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody. - Arthur C. Clarke

If someone is capable of Hurting you, you must be Capable of not getting hurt. - Mohith Agadi

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. - Oliver DeMille

The only kind of universe that I can even begin to conceive is an inconceivable one. - Ilyas Kassam

The pain of aloneness and pointlessness is piercing. It demands relief. That single fact — that the pain of living apart from God is unbearable — exposes our sinfulness as horribly grotesque and foolish. We insist on finding relief without coming to God on His terms. - Larry Crabb

I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver. - Richelle E. Goodrich

The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name - Pope John Paul II

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. - Dan Quayle

People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate. - Nora Ephron

I have enormous respect for the reader. They are able to take symbols from a page that an author has invented, and turn them into images in their minds that create an enduring story. If that’s not artistry, I don’t know what is. - Lynette Willows

Is it a time for you, you I say, to dwell in your roofed-in houses?' (Haggai 1:4). The reply might have been that it was unreasonable to expect anyone to live in a roofless house, but the question made its point. What worth did they set on their God, when they left His Temple in ruins? - Joyce G. Baldwin

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. - George W. Bush

Your mind contains great capital.Your heart contains extraordinary riches.Your soul contains remarkable treasure.Your life contains marvelous wealth. - Matshona Dhliwayo

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear. - Nelson Mandela

Unfortunately in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man. - Munia Khan

If others are judgmental and do not appreciate your life's work, don't be dejected. Try to see the incapability of others who are unable to understand the things you understand, and appreciate the capability of seeing something which is not visible to others. - Ashish Mandlik

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise. - Plato

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We will not be able to find peace if our minds are burning with the fires of resentment. Let us forgive and forget to create peace. - Debasish Mridha

It may be inevitable that mankind has to suffer so that it may gain experience to transcend and transform her collective consciousness. - Debasish Mridha

A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on timeBut then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuseMy hungry heart - Nikki Giovanni

Don't let the day go by without a handful of fun, for only those we'll be memorable and even intensified through time - A.M.M Alusi

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. - Pliny the Younger

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself - Simone de Beauvoir

Nothing was better than good sex.Chubby Chaser, 11/21/14. Available for preorder on Amazon. - Kahoko Yamada

I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green… - Munia Khan

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. - Ambrose Bierce

The most valuable things in your life are always the things that money cannot buy. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The future is unlimited for you right now, no one can knows what you capable of. Do not surrender! Only you are capable to change the world. - Kamal Khanzada

I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it’s not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering. - Atul Gawande

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. - John Constable

What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read. - Caroline Myss

One who is truly confident is able to apologize. - Olivia Tsoutsoplides

To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Deep pains only comes from palpable memory. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now & act-out what the Qur'an truly says ...maul, march, & murder every Infidel if they won't convert! - Gary Patton

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. - W. Somerset Maugham

Before proving it to someone else, I had to be able to prove it to myself. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty

Our fragile, perishable bodies are not who we are. We are the sum of fleeting moments that belong to us for eternity. It is our choice and responsibility to create moments of beauty and grace, instead of despair and suffering. - Dorit Brauer

The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing... - Alan Dapre

Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life. - Boyd K. Packer

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable. - Harold Bloom

The trick with getting Windows 10 to work well on my 2011 Windows 7 laptop computer was to use a HDMI cable and plug it into a full High Definition (HD) 1920x1080 resolution computer monitor at 60Hz as the sole display. - Steven Magee

It is raining! In other words little poems are coming down from the sky! Nature is literature! Sun is a fable; forest is a story; birds are a theatre; mountains are a myth; rain is a poem! Nature is literature! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Life is too short to be miserable for 40+ hours a week. - A. Dalcourt

Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices. - Jennifer Salaiz

There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. - Christopher Morley

Victory is possible, sisters, not by figuring out how to make this an easy process, but by choosing - over and over and over again - the absolute power available through God's truth. - Lysa TerKeurst

the path of change is unpredictable. - Barbara Marciniak

If you seek happiness through someone else's perspective, you might as well get comfortable in sorrow. - Unarine Ramaru

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why. - Jack Kerouac

Success is possible and achievable. - @PuleSir

It only confirmed what I'd always thought - that for all their education university professors can't even imagine political developments having any effect on their careers : they consider themselves untouchable. - Michel Houellebecq

A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ludicrous fools who sometimes hoped to achieve some ideal by fiat, by their great desire for it. But usually by bullying all mankind into believing them. - Saul Bellow, Herzog

If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience. - John N. Gray

Arianne had her feet up on the table, wearing a striped conductor's cap.Arriane was fixated on the game. A chocolate cigar bobbed between her lips as she contemplated her next move. Roland was giving Arianne the hawk eye."Checkmate, bitch," Arianne said triumphantly, knocking over Roland's king. - Lauren Kate

Passion for books is pleasurable. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated from their babies. I pulled on all the strength I had not to shot out every valuable leaded pane of glass in that stinking house. - Linda Leigh Hargrove

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. - Ronald Reagan

Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually. - Dalai Lama XIV

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to. - Margaret Cho

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. - Walter Bagehot

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! - Patrick Rothfuss

I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities. - Katie Kiesler

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap. - Faraaz Kazi

Sometimes you want to curl up and cry until you can cry no more. But you realize that that would leave you exposed and vulnerable. So you turn, and realize that there is no one to turn to. - Davin Turney

The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.

The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals. - Jasper Sole

Socialists seem to think George Orwell’s 1984 is a suggestion, or at least are unashamed of mimicking the methods of the totalitarian state Orwell depicted. Libertarians know it to be a warning, and a government that micro-manages all aspects of humanity an intolerable reality. - A.E. Samaan

When you are able to fill your mind with tranquility and inner peace, this world becomes very peaceful. - Debasish Mridha

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. - Aristotle

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. - Criss Jami

There is no separate entity that could be enlightened or unenlightened. There are only innumerable expressions of the One Being (which we call people, animals, forms), mirror-like facets, reflecting being-ness back to itself. - Enza Vita

I'm sure, the highest capacity of storage device, will not enough to record all our stories; because, everytime with you is very valuable data - cG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=

It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character. - Michelle Richmond

In order to bring down the great, you have to be able to reach the stars. - Matshona Dhliwayo

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. - C.S. Lewis

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw

Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this. - Jennifer DeLucy

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human. - Michael Jackson

I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pain in life is inevitable. - Sunday Adelaja

It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica. - John Hodgman

Each of us will be able to see God if we can ignite the spiritual light. - Debasish Mridha

The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation. - Amit Kalantri

There are only two kinds of people in this world, Mr. Sallinger: people who rise above that suffering and people who let it define them." (The Ables) - Jeremy Scott

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. - Adam Smith

A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and…actually, no it’s just those two things. - Colleen Houck

Selfless Actions; expand our life outside of us, enable us admired leaders and make our actions that live beyond our lifespan. - Ahmet Adam Asar

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be unforgettable! Love like a flower. - Debasish Mridha

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin

If true acts of worship must be sincere without expecting anything, it should not need to be able to offer the promise of anything - Handi Priyono

If you cannot find beauty in the midst of ugliness to find heaven on earth, you will not be able to find heaven in space. - Debasish Mridha

Our followers are like bees which live among birds. None of the birds recognize the bees because of their small size and weakness. They would not treat them this way if they realized that these very small bees can carry honey which is very valuable in their stomachs. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

Death was a quiet evil, unavoidable like the dark night and defenseless sleep and tearful sorrows. It had hunted her down and slithered close, wanting only to smother every last flicker of life."—from "My Aquarius - Richelle E. Goodrich

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable. - Ludwig van Beethoven

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse. - Bill Watterson

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. - Henry Miller

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being. - Lolly Daskal

The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame. Define your success as a person of values. Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be available to you. - Raphael Zernoff

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. - Anatole France

Great moment, unforgettable memory. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Each decision you make today has the potential to unlock and open doors of profitable benefits or close the doors to great opportunities. Think before you act and make your decisions wisely today. - DeWayne Owens

All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children. - Stefan Molyneux

Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only! - Mehmet Murat ildan

God has put enough into the world to make faith in Him a most reasonable thing. But He has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason or observation alone. - Ravi Zacharias

When you become too predictable you lose your brand's luster. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. - R.D. Laing

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

With certainty, one thing would be unattainable for a thousand years, if I live; is the ability to stop ceaselessly falling deeper, and deeper, and deeper, in loving with you, over, and over, and over again... - Solomon Debisette

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.Love them anyway. - Kent M. Keith

When you are able to love yourself deeply, you can be kind to others. - Debasish Mridha

No loss is without opportunity. No failure is without valuable lessons. Plunge in. It will, at worst, be a valuable experience. - Vironika Tugaleva

You may not able to hear the song of your heart but the universe can. - Debasish Mridha

If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone. - Karen Salmansohn

World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom - Jay Woodman

Our faith institutions have the best product that God can offer; but we have the worst customer service imaginable. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral. - Christopher Hitchens

Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.' - Dan Parker

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. - George Santayana

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein

I’m not going, he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer and sharper, till he was holding a trident as long as he was tall... And anyone who tries to make me is going to suffer. Twice, added the voice under the table. - Garth Nix

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Each person has a self-image that, to some degree, does not match reality. A significant difference between self-image and reality can be harmful. The more self-aware you are, the less likely you are to be vulnerable to your illusions. The more aware you are, the more you can do with your life. - Robert H. Bolton

ThinK: for a thin sneaking into a vast sea of Knowledge, and the water enables the clarity to see through. The Hindu mythology has it that thinner than water is nothing but Knowledge.Higher the cutting edge clarity, higher is the productivity. - Priyavrat Thareja

Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable. - John Mankiewicz

It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies. - Theodor W. Adorno

Sometimes an unimaginative mind can imagine the most unimaginable - Munia Khan

Don't care is what I've been trying to say .... but not able to ! - HarryKrishna

National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty - Sunday Adelaja

Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are. - Jaeda DeWalt

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. - Nancy Astor

Unbefuckinglievable. - Toby Young

Disconnect yourself from people who cannot add five to your ten words, because, sooner or later, you won't be able to say even a word. - Michael Bassey Johnson

A man’s most valuable possession is his integrity. Unless he has no integrity. In which case, he may not have much of anything of value. - T Jay Taylor

Because I keep it real and reality is a ruthless bitch. Plus I wanna make money – you cool with that? - Gable - J.M. August

One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that’s at once your invention and the invention of you. - Philip Roth

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise. - Mitchell Caplan

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it. - Shannon L. Alder

In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer. - H. Norman Wright

What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead. - Joshua Ferris

Love is the most valuable currency of life which you can spend as much as you want without the risk of bankruptcy. - Debasish Mridha

The time you spend loving is the most valuable time of your life. - Debasish Mridha

The suppression of uncomfortable ideasmay be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no placein the endeavor of science. - Carl Sagan

Writing is an incurable psychological disease which only gets worse with writing. - Debasish Mridha

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. - Archibald Alexander

One word love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day you won't be able to resist. - Jack Sparrow

The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought right now can manifest just six months from now as unconditional love and unshakable happiness. - Vironika Tugaleva

...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father. - Martha N. Beck

Whoever you choose to fall in love with, is an important decision of yours, but you better choose carefully 'Cause you're capable of anything. Of anything and everything. - Auliq Ice

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. - Homer

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. - Thomas Aquinas

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? - Henry David Thoreau

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. - Thorstein Veblen

The challenge is quite formidable if you spell it out explicitly: artists must look at a three-dimensional scene with their two-dimensional retinas and then generate a two-dimensional painting that appears three-dimensional to viewers who look at it with their two-dimensional retinas. - Margaret S. Livingstone

I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable. - Allen Shawn

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

If you hold back for fear of making a mistake you will never accomplish what you must.And with each challenge you will become stronger. - Kate Constable the Tenth Power

In order for one to be converted to the 'dark' side he/she must have a complete understanding of the 'light' side With it's understanding we all would want to defy, overpower, or destroy what it is capable of. - Anonymous

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living. - Swami Dhyan Giten

Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to suppress sin. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer. - John Paul Warren

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. - Gordon B. Hinckley

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - Charles Caleb Colton

Politics is a country idiot capable of concentrating on only one thing at a time. - Robert Harris

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist. - E. Haldeman-Julius

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss - Sigmund Freud

If you are uncomfortable with any law or procedure, propose a motion for its amendment. Until it is amended, going against it for whatever purpose automatically makes one a rebel - OMOSOHWOFA CASEY

Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds' influence on the lives of many people in Louisiana and elsewhere has been immeasurable. Countless hundreds will rise up in the last day to call her 'blessed. - Reverend Dr. Thomas H. Campbell, Cumberland Presbyterian

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. - Evelyn Waugh

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. - Bible

MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America. - Ambrose Bierce

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. - Confucius

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. - Mark Twain

There's a way, a way way too long but reachable, not for everyone a way but possible... Go and don't lose your way! - Rossana Condoleo

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. - Sir Francis Bacon

He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an engaging modesty. - W. Somerset Maugham

Es la regla Sherlock: cuando eliminas lo imposible, lo que queda, por improbable que sea, es la respuesta. - Stephen King

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable. - Karl Kraus

You must know where you're and see what's ahead of you, by doing that you'll be able to achieve your dreams and goals. This sort of journey is called the power of sight and the power of imagination. Without the capacity of imagination the future is doomed. - Euginia Herlihy

Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages. - Matshona Dhliwayo

We lost our country somewhere along the way. We know where we lost it but we do not appear to have the strength to eliminate those blocking our view to enable us to develop our common identity. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings. - André Gide

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. - Alexandre Dumas

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death. - Agnostic Zetetic

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. - John Updike

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable. - Shannon L. Alder

What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren't fighting yourself along the way. - Shannon Ables

Il (Georges Perros) arrivait le mardi matin, ébouriffé de vent et de froid sur sa moto bleue et rouillée. Voûté, dans un caban marine, la pipe à la bouche ou dans sa main. Il vidait une sacoche de livres sur la table. Et c’était la vie. - Jean-Marie Gibbal

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment. - Dave Barry

To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. - Plutarch

What more does one need than what is offered by the present moment? Once you have learnt how to dissolve in the present moment, and you are able to enjoy it, you will have no problem in disregarding the empty chit-chat of the Ego, the mind! - Frank Wanderer

Happiness, noun. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. - Ambrose Bierce

Books are readable drugs. - Carla H. Krueger

Reading is a pleasurable paradise. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination - Ryohgo Narita

Sacred soul has indomitable strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a divine grace available for you to accomplish far greater things than you could ever imagine nor dream of. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared. - Preeti Simran Sethi

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. - Saint Basil

If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and to have sins. - Toba Beta

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable. - Doris Lessing

The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)……The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269). - Marvin Gaye

[The moon] ... is an example of practiced stability … it wanes when it must, and reliably returns to full strength … it is a humble model of reasonable potential that I can emulate, and follow. - Terry Crawford Palardy

I like life. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Douglas Adams

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso

Rakitin was dishonest and was decidedly unaware of it; that, on the contrary, knowing that he wouldn't steal money from the table, he ultimately considered himself a man of the highest integrity. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Most uncomfortable situations brings at times most precious memories.... - Adil Adam Memon

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. - Oscar Wilde

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. - Jane Austen

People are afraid of change. Change is inevitable to life. Change actually has the mask of pushing us out of comfort zone. Every time we learn, go through life experiences our perception/Emotional chemistry is changing. Embrace change because we are becoming a more polished version of ourselves. - Matthew Donnelly

If one has not been able to experience God by himself, one should allow himself to be guided by the experiences of others who have experienced Him - Muhammad Asad

Art expresses those unexplainable thoughts of our soul. - Debasish Mridha

Don't let lack of sexual communication get in the way of your pleasure any longer. Dare to ask the questions that will make sex so much more enjoyable, boost passion, and facilitate a deeper connection and intimacy in your relationship. - Miya Yamanouchi

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. - Sojourner Truth

There are, in the affairs of men and nations, inexorable tides from which they cannot remain aloof. - Louis L'Amour

I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed. - Michelle Franklin

My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow. - Andrew Marvell

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. - Maya Angelou

Imagine how extraordinary the world would be if everyone believed the only man capable of evil…is himself. - Ivy Yuelle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle

But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness. - Terri Cheney

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. - Isaac Newton

Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite capable of resisting the urge to surrender to every impulse of reptilian core of brain. - Carl Sagan

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention. - Phil Cooke

Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others. - Vishwas Chavan

Only those who are in-charge are tackled and criticized by others so criticism is something desirable and should not be resented. - Emmanuel Moore Abolo

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. - Fran Lebowitz

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can probably change their attitude. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable. - James Rouse

The most successful people I know are also the most reliable. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

To write you into poems,and make you unerasable. - Vivid Darkness

Once you understand pain, You will never be able to share it with others - Alok Jagawat

Sacrifice do with a lot of restriction,give when you can bear the pain If you are ready to give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss,Sacrifice. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart. - Marcel Proust

The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable. - Joseph Fletcher

The aurora of humanity will begin when we learn that love is our only power and kindness is our ineffable religion. - Debasish Mridha

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time. - Dick Cavett

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. - Woody Allen

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Everyone has a price, as they say. So let the price on your tag say PRICELESS INVALUABLE IRREPLACEABLE. - Omoakhuana Anthonia

I am unable to tolerate’; to say this is the lack of ability to tolerate and ‘I am able to tolerate’ is itself the ability to tolerate. - Dada Bhagwan

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable. - Delano Johnson

Look," she said, and just that. That was the only time she opened her mouth, because she wanted to say something unnecessary, something that wouldn't be important or memorable, so I wouldn't have to remember her voice.We looked at the veil then, the thing that had turned her this way, and we smiled. - Willa Valentine

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. - Guy Debord

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. - Plato

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the satisfaction. - Lynn Johnston

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence. - Karl Marx

Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it! - Amit Chatterjee

Some thoughts you underestimate but may be capable of energizing the world. Never delay to put your thoughts into words. - Bikash Bhandari

God beckons me to exhilarating adventures that are without number, beyond all conceivable boundaries, and effortlessly eclipse the furthest reaches of my imagination, all while I sit languishing in stifling adventures of my own limited creation. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go. - Anthony Liccione

My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world. - Kevin Focke

Man must learn that his current path is not suitable for Earth, and soon, Earth won't be suitable for Man. - Donald L. Hicks

The Master said, A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.(Analects 2.11) - Confucius

Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. - Marion C. Garretty

In my lifetime I have witnessed far too many miracles to believe in impossibilities, and so I am officially modifying the definition. im·pos·si·ble [im-pos-uh-buhl]Old definition: Unable to be done.New definition: Unable to be ignored until done. - Richelle E. Goodrich

It's bad to grow old before your time. It's worse to not grow at all within your mind, - Stabley Victor Paskavich

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest. - Thomas Carlyle

The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world. - John Cheever

The prudent people are able to measure a person's level of selfishness by the amount of time s/he spends enjoying looking to oneself in the mirror. - Anuj Somany

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight. - Pawan Mishra

Learn to be comfortable in your own skin despite what you see and hear. - Michelle Cook-Hall

It is a total mystery how we evolved minds capable of piloting cars through wild maneuvers using a wrist to steep while shouting at a cell phone. The creationists are fools for focusing on animal evolution. Darwin explains nature! He has more difficulty explaining us. - David Brin

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend. - Stephen Richards

The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables. - Aldous Huxley

To live in a world that requires you to become someone else, being yourself is your best choice and most valuable accomplishment."- - Steven Cuoco

Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden. - Cristen Rodgers

When you initiate something creative and develop your policies that are solution based, you would then be able to flourish audiences who can heavily rely on your ideas for future success. - Saaif Alam

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote. - William Hazlitt

When you look back at that relationship you didn't think you could live without and realize had you stayed in it, you'd be some comfortable loser, sitting on the couch with another comfortable loser, instead of being the dope motherfucker you are today. - Darnell Lamont Walker

In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement. - J.G. Ballard

"Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. - Samuel Smiles

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. - Lee Simonson

Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body... - Kiley MacLeod

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. - Nicholson Baker

Unexamined thoughts, habits or action may offer some deceptive gain or pleasure but eventually it takes away something most valuable from our life ,which we have ever wished for. - Aditya Ajmera

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. - Peter Minard

What do you believe in ?""People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance. - Simone de Beauvoir

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you. - Andrew Davidson

One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth. - Adam Snowflake

I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion. - Kurt Cobain

It's quite conceivable that [life] will eventually spread through thegalaxy and beyond. So life may not forever be an unimportant tracecontaminant of the universe, even though it now is. In fact,I find it a rather appealing view. - Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees

I may not be able to leave behind wealth or splendor, but I will try to leave behind examples and stories of my love and kindness to inspire you to be kind and spread the message of kindness. - Debasish Mridha

The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy. - Viktor E. Frankl

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity? - Elie Wiesel

Sometimes, I feel able to write lines about my life and about how I do feel everyday in such a huge book, but sometimes I either prefer to write one word that describe it or just to say nothing at all. - Sarah Keddar

Everything that is experienced through the five senses is all ‘discharge’. It is due to one’s merit karmas that everything works according to one’s wishes, but he claims, ‘I did it’ and when one faces losses, he will say, ‘God did it’ or ‘my horoscope is unfavorable’. - Dada Bhagwan

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. - Sallust

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. - Oswald Chambers

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Love in its essence is unconditional. When conditions, exceptions, and ultimatums are cast into the mix, its purity changes. It is no longer love and should be referred to by a less-desirable name. - Richelle E. Goodrich

I may not be able to help you as much as I want, but I promise I will help you as much as I can. - Debasish Mridha

If I assume the ‘truth’ to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my ‘truth.’ And the ‘truth’ of the matter is, when I do this I’ve chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

...an ambitious array of dishonorable intentions that he intended to wield upon the Countess’s nether regions. — BATS 2015 - Fred Barnett

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. - Lawana Blackwell

Confidence is the most reliable currency of life. - Debasish Mridha

Everything with a breath is able to create and make a change as long as there is a chance, a wish and need for. - Auliq Ice

Probable-Possible, my black hen, She lays eggs in the Relative When. She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now Because she's unable to postulate how.

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth! - Israelmore Ayivor

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214) - Albert Einstein

Mankind's glorious and people's happy ending is inevitable. No one will be left behind. - Stefan Emunds

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition. - Ambrose Bierce

You sound so miserable.All novelists are. - Changdictator

I am thankful that sacrifice is non-negotiable, and that counting the cost in giving to another is foolishly assuming that we can put a price on sacrifice. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes life is unpredictable, as are people. - Julieanne O'Conner

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. - Sydney Smith

He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and utter prostration. - Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation. - Simone de Beauvoir

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. - George Gissing

My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith. - Hermes Trismegistus

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. - E.M. Forster

This proves the significance of individualism; being able to face the music, to embrace it, and then create something beautiful from it. You can’t truly be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes and the pinnacle of life can only be reached when one can carve their own path. - Nadège Richards

I believe that without strict enforcement of penalties for any offence violating the principles of truth and honesty, Nigeria and Africa will not be able to move from our present state of underdevelopment into civilization. - Sunday Adelaja

For certain is death for the bornAnd certain is birth for the dead;Therefore over the inevitableThou shouldst not grieve. - Bhagavad Gita

We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work. - Elizabeth Aston

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. - Margaret Cho

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning. - Derrick A. Bell

Now and then, I remember you in timesUnbelievable. And in places not made for memoryBut for the transient, the passing that does not remain. - Yehuda Amichai

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. - Cornelius Tacitus

Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it’s also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time? - Grace Helbig

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. - George S. Patton Jr.

Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way. - Jim Rohn

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence. - Herbert Marcuse

Nothing is more honorable than a man or woman with a good reputation. - DeWayne Owens

Success in life is about project management. Determine deliverables, make milestones, and always pursue the critical path. - Ryan Lilly

One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women. - Agatha Christie

Real mental toughness is about being conscious of your behavior patterns and from this knowledge, you are able to turn your life around. - Tara Estacaan

When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies. - John Granger

Clara looked at Maria and tried to understand what she must do so that Maria would be able to see her. But the little French girl cast all around her the bronze of infinite solitude. - Muriel Barbery

Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. - Thomas J. Watson

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion.: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounded it up to the nearest 90. - Stephen Colbert

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. - Philip Pullman

Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth! - Thiruman Archunan

Leadership management is the art of making problems enjoyable and interesting to deal with, by allowing the team to have the power and accountability to resolve them. - Greg Weismantel

The fundamental premise that all are equal under and before the law and all are entitled to the equal protection and the equal benefit of the law and when that is put in place, the law enforcement becomes manageable because just laws foster compliance, do not require coercion. - George Stamatis

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.[Diary entry, 1971] - Fritz Zwicky

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work. - John Ruskin

A spiritually mature person is capable of admitting his mistakes and sins. - Sunday Adelaja

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable. - Rabih Alameddine

Life is like a boxing match, it seems, society has not been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of crime - irak.ibrahim hussain didi

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. - Nicole Richie

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him. - Seneca

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd. - Penelope Lively

We all have our state of mind- happy or sad,sources of both are so relatable.Despite showing someone’s faults & flaws we need to cherish them. cause, we all are into an e n d l e s s l o o p. - ayushi jain

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman

If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job. - Woody Allen

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. - William Shakespeare

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. - Richard Dawkins

For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable. - Bhagavad Gita

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence. - Richard Dawkins

It would be great if a person could state with indisputable facts & figures as how many people have ever got a job or a business opportunity by liking an online thought/post of a rich businessperson. - Anuj Somany

Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known. - Les Miserables

[While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some I've come to know better than many I know in real life, since in real life we don't get to read other people's mail. - David McCullough

The gift of being able to speak with a holy God because of the righteousness we gain through Jesus on the cross is an indescribable miracle! - Alisa Hope Wagner

It is difficult to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of doubt, impossible to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of fear, but conceivable to soar to your destiny carried by the wings of faith. - Matshona Dhliwayo

cela fait si longtemps que ça dure que j'ai cessé de me demander si c'est dans la haine ou dans l'amour que nous trouvons la force de continuer cette vie mensongère, que nous puisons l'énergie formidable qui nous permet encore de souffrir, et d'espérer. - Georges Perec

One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable. - Jonathan V. Last

Most are constantly asking for more, but with that comes more responsibility and most aren't willing to or able to handle that. Greatness comes at a cost and requires an investment. If you don't want the work.... you don't want the prize. - Randa Manning-Johnson

Be honest with yourself, face your feelings and what they really mean, then you will be able to deal with them and move on. - Jay Woodman

If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Trust compared to a valuable stone that has been shattered, cannot be restored to its original form. - Ellen J. Barrier

Life is beautiful and this earth is heaven, but your mind is capable enough to create hell for you, on this very earth, if you go on living your life, without understanding. - Roshan Sharma

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit. - Tupac Shakur

Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority. - Michael Bassey Johnson

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings. - Jack Kerouac

Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, as they carry around a volume of ideas too great for their capacity. - Sarah Colliver

Disposal of thoughts would diminish your intelligence level and you would not be able to fulfill critical responsibilities that would revolve throughout your life. - Saaif Alam

The best time to seek a favour is when you can give something in return. The best time to expect to succeed is when you're capable of working for it. - Asuni LadyZeal

To be out of touch with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing. - Mona Eltahawy

Once you enhance your inner vision with deep meditation, you may be able to see your inner beauty and inner universe. - Debasish Mridha

Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable. - Neetesh Dixit

Just because we are capable of art didn't what lay in front of him could be dismissed as aberration, that we could take what we admired and fence that off as human, dismissing the rest as monstrous. The same hands committed both. Brains don't undermine the savagery. They made us better at it. - Michael Marshall

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. - Walter Bagehot

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. - Francis A. Schaeffer

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things. - Philip Slater

If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that. - Demi Lovato

And sometimes you realize the value of the rain by knowing how unreliable and vanishing the rainbow is. - Nur Bedeir

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. - H. L. Mencken

Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. - H. L. Mencken

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

There are opportunities for all of us, we just have to open our eyes and hold ourselves completely accountable - K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. - Anna Wintour

If you have to cut corners to get it, without allowing yourself go through the process, you will not be able to keep it. - Kemi Sogunle

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet. - Carl Honoré

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant. - Sefer Hasidim

In life, sadness is inevitable. So, we must at least try to enjoy it. - George Aaron P. Navaja

As long as you feel comfortable losing, you will never win! - Mignon' Talise Padilla

Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous. - Lynda Williams

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book. - A.D. Posey

We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts. - Cesare Pavese

Map out lofty goals… include reasonable checkpoints along the way... refine, improve, and enhance your behavior in alignment with your goals…. that is the dynamic of true leadership and the formula for success. - Steve Maraboli

Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader. - Gary Rohrmayer

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. - Ambrose Bierce

So far as I am aware no leader of a party of the European left in the past twenty-five years has declared capitalism as such to be unacceptable as a system. The only public figure to do so unhesitatingly was Pope John Paul II. - Eric Hobsbawm

Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy. - Giacomo Casanova

Nowhere but in England are the papers so full of fascinating misbehaviour. There is always a scandal brewing, there is always a politician, village vicar or bank manager being pilloried, yet at the same time the country breathes a remarkable sense of order. - Geert Mak

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. - Mary Kay Ash

Kindness rarely costs anything, but its worth is immeasurable. - Debasish Mridha

Those who have anger, they try to take control others with the heat of anger and those who do not have anger are able to take control of others with their strength of character known as sheel. Even it can take control of animals (with it’s strength)!!! - Dada Bhagwan

The opportunity to do what is right is available at all times. - Jim George

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you. - Jay M. Bylsma

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. - Fran Lebowitz

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When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men. - Judith Lewis Herman

Some people wouldn’t still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn’t be disabled or dead. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting. - Adam Clayton Powell III

Lyon - "Love makes you weak, weak makes you vulnerable, vulnerable makes you dead. - Artemis Crow

It would be a remarkable life, if we live it in the same manner as we do once we find out we do not have much to live - Faisal Khosa

I am not doing anything special,Just struggling with my Present to make my Future enjoyable. - Shashank Rayal

I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship, listen to music, daily dance and sacred writing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture? - David Bohm

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices. - Theodore Dalrymple

...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society? - Robert B. Reich

Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend. - Diogenes Laërtius

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated. - Wayne W. Dyer

Une politique valable ne peut faire un pas sans rendre hommage à la morale. - Immanuel Kant

I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. - Henry David Thoreau

If everyone takes one action for peace every day, our future generations will be able to enjoy peace. - Debasish Mridha

When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice. - Debasish Mridha

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices. - Joyce Carol Oates

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas. - Arshile Gorky

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. - G.K. Chesterton

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes and completes them by what is deepest in themselves.

To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am not saying we should stop doing impossible,we should do and think impossible but we should not do and think intolerable. - Rajesh Walecha

Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.

Happiness is purely a chosen state of being available to all, at all times.I choose to be happy, because I am. - Raphael Zernoff

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. - John Lennon

Más amables de lo necesario. Porque no basta con ser amables. Uno debería ser más amable de lo necesario. - R.J. Palacio

Deprisa, sin dejar huella, sin dejar memoria, o dejándola mala, deleznable, de ceniza, que pueda una gran ráfaga barrer un día, una ráfaga que llegará un día, un luminoso viento al que no importen las cenizas. - Rafael Dieste

I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway. - Unknown

Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that? - Artemus Withers

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable. - Gerry Abbey

Inspiration awakens our creativity, enables us to do the impossible, and improves our mental efficiency. It fires up the soul. - Farshad Asl

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell

Human mind is the most unreliable thing in the universe. So control it. - Noormohammad Bhuayan

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. - John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing! - C. JoyBell C.

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. - Malcolm X

Loyalty is a very heavy weight, not everyone is able to carry it.Forward March Life Quotes - Jelani Daniel

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death. - Thomas Browne

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell

And when you play this song, hold your head high, motherfucker, don't ever look down, be comfortable with who you are, our flaws are what makes us perfect - Machine Gun Kelly

As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss. - Robert J. Wiersema

With medical science improving at roughly the same rate as our environmental situation worsens, the most likely scenario is that the world will become uninhabitable at the precise moment the human race becomes immortal. - Steve Toltz

I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS - DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T EXPLAIN, THE BITTER GRAPES - ll available through Amazon and Createspace - - Saaskia Aark-Bennett

It is not your fault you believe what your parents tell you. It is theirs for telling you unbelievable things. -- ME - Tammy Wooster

For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles. - Socrates

You will not able to find peace if you are the source of unhappiness for others. - Debasish Mridha

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul. - Aleksandar Hemon

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. - Woodrow Wilson

Personal Brand Focus: Immediately you try to reach the masses with your brand you dilute your brand's power and falls into the average zone. You cease to be remarkable - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance. - Shannon L. Alder

Everyone has a calling. Thus, everyone has the chance to do something remarkable that will make him great in the eyes of others. - Jawe Campos

Music fills the emptiness of our souls with the indescribable universal ecstasy - Debasish Mridha

As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me. - H. Rider Haggard

Child, if such folks awe you, then picture them on the lavatory, straining, constipated. They will at once seem small, pathetic, manageable." And she whispered to me a great, universal truth: "THE BOWELS ARE GREAT LEVELLERS. - Angela Carter

Two things influence one's wisdom: remarkable experience and – evenmuch more – accumulated knowledge. - Eraldo Banovac

God is like a mirror, consistent, stable, unchanging; reflecting His image of us, that is always changing. - Anthony Liccione

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! - Leo Buscaglia

I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the darknessof the cry. I wantwords as roughas virgin rocks. - Verb. - Pablo Neruda

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes]. - Darnell Lamont Walker

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. - Ursula K. LeGuin

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. - George Eliot

The people’s life journey traverses from being child to being wild; the privilege is not in growing old but being able to hold the infant’s nature for as many days and as much as a person can in oneself. - Anuj Somany

You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat the inconvenience in your life like ill-fitting wandering underpants, adjust it to be comfortable again. - Conversation with aPigeon

History has always been violent, unstoppable and bound to happen; either with or without you. Acknowledge it. - Mamur Mustapha

Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I don’t want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I’d rather bring something new to the table that’s true to me and that people will have a genuine reaction to. That’s the whole point, isn’t it? - Veronika Carnaby

Life is the most fascinating journey that you will never ever be able to take again. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

You mustn't dwell on the inevitable. - Jessica Powers in Melted

We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking stops and action becomes mindless. - J. William Fulbright

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. - Frank Herbert

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off. - Joyce Rachelle

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them. - C.F. Heller

God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit. - Elizabeth George

It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody. - C. JoyBell C.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. - Walt Kelly

Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively. - Amit Kalantri

Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable. - Sarvesh Jain

Oh, Confucius, "real knowledge" is to know we will ever be able to measure the extent of our, or one's, ignorance. - Lúcia Ramos

Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised. - Gregory B. Sadler

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that. - Joe Biden

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. - Friedrich Nietzsche

All great change in America begins at the dinner table. - Ronald Reagan

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. - Gail Sheehy

If I only looked at what I've lost, I'd never be able to see what I have. - Cindy Charlton

I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on and loved us back, that love held even more meaning to me. - Hubert Martin

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity. - Isocrates

The courage to conquer is indomitable will. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Only meditation on God's word is capable of changing our way of thinking. - Sunday Adelaja

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. - C. S. Lewis

Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet. If you have met one, hold on to her, she'll allow you into her chaos but she'll also show you her magic. - Nikki Rowe

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about. - Garrison Keillor

Indomitable soul encompasses a beautiful heart and a beautiful smile. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein! - Milan Kundera

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. - G. K. Chesterton

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved - Iris Murdoch

Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot reach in the crowds will meet you there! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? - Thomas a Kempis

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists. - Maya Angelou

Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company. - Milan Kundera

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. - Cyrano de Bergerac

For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do...[Lucifer] - Glen Duncan

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable. - Anthony de Mello

Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle. - Samuel Beckett

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body. - John Adams

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference. - Anonymous

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt

If you can find happiness inside of you, nothing will be able to create angst in your mind. - Debasish Mridha

Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained. - R.W. Patterson

Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation". - Steven Magee

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. - Blaise Pascal

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

In every life, there is always a journey that is unforgettable and a path that can never be traced. - Auliq Ice

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars. - Tariq Ramadan

Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ? - Graham Greene

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. - Leo Rosten

Sustainable- Nutritious Eating/Living has a Higher Purpose. - Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig

The joy of one success far supersedes the ninety nine miserable attempts that may sometimes be called failure. - Auliq-Ice

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. - Clifton Fadiman

Mindfulness is attainable when one can embrace life, not its circumstances. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado

By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it. - Debasish Mridha

We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love. - Santosh Kalwar

A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? I am Pure Soul, it is that Self. - Dada Bhagwan

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. - James Bridie

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. - Seneca

I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is. - Clifford Stoll

Everything in here is eatable. I'm eatable, but that my children is called cannibalism, and is frowned upon in most societies.

A simple, sober guy who is often very shy is always relatively reliable than the people who usually wish to drive, fly or try different means to bring around oneself the crowd. - Anuj Somany

The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The journey is made up of the most genuine and honest wonders of the mind, but also includes unfathomable sorrow and despair; yet, this is what makes up a journey as well as the human experience in entirety. - Forrest Curran

Delay is preferable to error. - Thomas Jefferson

It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls. - Voltaire