Quotation Explorer - 'Ed'

So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so.... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power. - H. Rider Haggard

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it. - Rodney Dangerfield

True education creates a new reality for humanity. - Debasish Mridha

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain

The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him. - Qiu Xiaolong

As a HARD ROCK hit the wolf, he crawled back to his favorite beach to gathered sources from his 3S of happiness , sea, sand and sun to refresh his battle faced body ... A triangle with the SHE wolf inside, the ONE that combined all the above to rejuvenate his soul - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded - Rasheed Ogunlaru

From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort. - Sunday Adelaja

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty. - Edmund Spenser

Be the character you want to be described as!(In a good way, of course!) - E.L. Tenenbaum

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. - Friedrich Nietzsche

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me. - Coco J. Ginger

ownergy= ownership + energy. A word i coined together to mean working with a clear sense of ownership and energy to achieve great success. Brimekonsult. - brimekonsult

I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery. - Edgar Allan Poe

The toxicity of medical and industrial gas to the human depends on where it is used. A gas that is regarded as safe in a well ventilated environment at sea level may be a toxic gas in an indoor environment at high altitude. - Steven Magee

A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice. - Theodore Roosevelt

If people ask me like who I would like to be I will say Like Larry Cohen, his movie with the Phone Booth, blowed my mind. - Deyth Banger

A day without love and gratitude is a day without significance and wasted. - Debasish Mridha

Education is a process of cultivating diamonds in a field called the mind. - Debasish Mridha

Mnie Bóg, w życiu moim, nigdy nie był potrzebny - od najwcześniejszego dzieciństwa, ani przez pięć minut - byłem zawsze samowystarczalny. / I have never in my life needed God - from the infancy, since I was 5, I was self-sufficient. (Dziennik 1956, XVIII Niedziela) - Witold Gombrowicz

I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind. - Debasish Mridha

Water and a bubble on it are one and the same. The bubble has its birth in the water, floats on it, and is ultimately resolved into it. Likewise, your consciousness is born in your brain, goes through various states in your lifetime and ultimately resolves into the brain. - Abhijit Naskar

Failing over and over again is how you learn to succeed over and over again. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Eating a burrito is like eating a living, breathing organism - you can feel the burrito's ingredients sigh inside with each bite, each squeeze. - Gustavo Arellano

Sometimes It feels like time is an evil clown that we always imagine. It gives you everything you ask for, and when you are about to happily embrace every gift that you have received it snatches away everything laughing and clapping at you, watching you fall on your knees and break into pieces. - Akshay Vasu

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. - Merce Cunningham

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. - Bette Davis

A'isha asked him: 'Does one come to Paradise only by the mercy of Allah?' He repeated three times over: 'No one comes to Paradise except by the mercy of Allah!' 'Not even you. Messenger of Allah?' she asked. 'Not even I, unless Allah enfolds me in His mercy. - Anonymous

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated. - Jeph Jacques

If I were to receive a pair of the blessed prophetic sandals to place on my head, then I shall consider myself no less than a fully crowned king. - Anonymous

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. - Leo. C Rosten

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella. - Katherine Mansfield

When an idea for solving a problem suddenly presents itself, ask yourself if all circumstances related to the problem were properly analyzed. - Eraldo Banovac

Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you. - Robert M. Price

It is said with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who proceeded him. - George R.R. Martin

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is not in their destiny. - Idries Shah

Trying to cool his jets, trying to let her stay in charge, he attempted to hold back, but she let out this breathy little whimper like he was the best thing she’d ever tasted. - Jill Shalvis

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. - Thomas Merton

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. - Charles Baudelaire

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. - Andre Maurois

You were born into this life equipped to succeed. You are a part of God’s perfect plan. Yes, you. The plan would not be perfect if you were missing. Think about that. You matter more than you know. - Toni Sorenson

Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats. - Ron Paul

To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...? - Roland Barthes

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

Suddenly, he felt a tremendous stirring of hope inside his heart; it filled his whole body with its warmth. I may not be that much of a broken man, he thought to himself. - H. L. Balcomb

Oh yeah? How about M'Lin the cursed? - L.J. Smith

We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life. - Toni Sorenson

It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine. - P.G. Wodehouse

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. - Edward Chilton

Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will. - Debasish Mridha

The Beloved is Always There, Actively Seeking You. - Tony Samara

A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to stop, but that's about all. - J.D. Salinger

Take you example by this thing,/ And yield to each his right,/ Lest God with such like miserye/ Your wicked minds requite - Various

Drawing up her spear, Ellemist lunged towards the mighty leviathan. - Muse

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife. - Jane Austen

Education is the key which opens the magical door of wisdom which reveals the beauty. - Debasish Mridha

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time. - Stephen King

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. - Paul Farmer

The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance. - Russell D. Moore

Reality is the manifestation of the inner workings, carried out by the supreme powers. Whatever you think and do right now, either positive or negative is working on your behalf because you are a co-worker of the divine. - Michael Bassey Johnson

However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones — only those who are depressed or dysphoric come to accurate assessments. - Daniel Nettle

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey. - Mark Twain

War is organized murder and nothing else - Harry Patch

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. - Jane Austen

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. - W. Somerset Maugham

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

Let not your heart be troubled. - Bible

It's hypocritical to expect a job based on a curriculum built out of companies that for whatever reason rejected you. - Daniel Marques

Meditation quiets conscious thought and the physical realm, making a doorway to spiritual awareness. - Jenna Alatari

I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail. - Jessie Snow

When you put fear behind the wheel, you're bound to crash, but when you drive in faith the ride will be rough, but preceding into a journey of your lifetime. - Anthony Liccione

If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a primary virtue out of exactitude and economy of meaning: this has replaced metrical skill as the first thing the poet tunes to. - Martin Langford

Gerti didn’t ask for help. Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. It was my fault. So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to. So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes? - Shannon Hale

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

Mach-S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed. - Jef Mallett

Need is what tears people apart. When you want someone, you never really need them. But as soon as you start to need someone, they no longer want you. - Mohadesa Najumi

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch? - Hugo Ball

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I don't like being called Elvis The Pelvis. That's gotta be one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. - Elvis Presley

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument? - Nigel Kennedy

INTEGRITY...Choosing your thoughts, words and actions based on what’s right rather than what’s in it for you. - Tanya Masse

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. - Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith. - Anaïs Nin

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. - Paul Fussell

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. - Charles M. Schulz

Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist. - Ashly Lorenzana

The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance. - Orrin Woodward

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government. - Sheldon Richman

A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge. - Guatama Buddha

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. - Will Rogers

Give me a shot to rememberAnd you can take all the pain away from meA kiss and I will surrenderThe sharpest lives are the deadliest to leadA light to burn all the empiresSo bright the sun is ashamed to rise and beAnd I'm in love with all of those vampiresSo you can leave like the sane abandoned me - Gerard Way

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication. - Idries Shah

If everyone realized this truth about their own inherent power to create and to attract whatever they desired, not everyone would want to be the president of a country, not everyone would want to live on that mansion on the hill, and not everyone would want the same things you would. - Stephen Richards

True love is a feeling...which can neither be defined nor described! - Gladys Bejani

Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile. - David Morrell

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men. - Michel Tremblay

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be 'Doctor of Life,' and I will be in good company. So many of us earn our 'Doctor of Life' degrees. - Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D.

All others are outside myself;I lock my door and bar them outThe turmoil, tedium, gad-about.I lock my door upon myself,And bar them out; but who shall wallSelf from myself, most loathed of all?If I could once lay down myself,And start self-purged upon the raceThat all must run ! Death runs apace. - Christina Rossetti

Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto. - Roger E. Olson

Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There's wickedness, dark as night. There are things that are wicked and if you touch them, they know you. They know where to find you now. - Knock Knock - S.P. Miskowski

When my mother died, I thought I’d drown in sorrow. But my grandmother said something very wise, and I’ve always held it close to my heart. She said that not even the sea is infinite, and neither is grief. - T. Frohock

Because they saved me from myself, they rescued me from my loneliness. They were the first to accept me for who I am. They're my friends.-Naruto Uzumaki - Masashi Kishimoto

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one. - Friedrich Nietzsche

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long. - Rabindranath Tagore

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my troth, for our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul - Roman Payne

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell

I'm not the person I used to be. I never was. - Marty Rubin

There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics. - David W. Earle

Winners will take what they know and share it with others.The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. - Anonymous

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. - Søren Kierkegaard

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. - Friedrich Nietzsche

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. - Simone Weil

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save. - Brandon Varnell

our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness - Samuel Johnson

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. - Charles de Gaulle

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior. - Katherine Hepburn

Smile! Accept hatred with love. - Debasish Mridha

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

The price of winning is dedication and the price of dedication is concentration. To get any of the two you have to accept to toil for both. - Auliq Ice

The real satire starts when I’m shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked. - Munia Khan

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. - Mark Twain

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself. - John Milton

The most precious etchings of caring can be traced not in the scope of its message, but in the integrity of its purpose. - Johnathan Jena

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights. - A.E. Samaan

And then I met this girl. He paused, his fingers finding mine in a tight squeeze. And she made all my dark corners light - Gwen Hayes

Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. - Ralph H. Blum

Try to show grace, mercy and compassion, for one day you may need them. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the waysomeone falling down in the street is funny.I entered a revolving door and emergedas a human being. When you think of meis my face electronically blurred? - Jeffrey McDaniel

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. - Kary Mullis

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. - Albert Camus

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell

No one is an outside observer of nature,We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical. - Beau Lotto

The createst trick the ego has ever pulled of was to convince you that you need it. - Can Arel

In regards to life goals, you need to think about where you are now, and plot out where you want to be a year from now, two years from now, and then five years from now. - Auliq Ice

Probe deeply enough, under the slickest façade of confidence, and you tapped a vein of self-doubt or a hidden fear. Irrational fears and baseless doubts, many of them, but that was precisely why constant reassurance was necessary to the human animal. - Barbara Michaels

This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it. - Jazz Feylynn

Let the warning of the tyrants of the past be recognized for it shall be the same one ringing out when the tyrants of the present are unleashed. - Sai Marie Johnson

If the great figures of this nation’s history were alive today, they would all have to say that they committed a felony when they applied for a job at McDonald’s. - Justin King

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it. - Eric Schmidt

2AM where do i begin,Crying off my face again,The silent sound of lonliness,Wants to follow me to bed - Christina Perri

There is no such thing in the world as a self-made man or a self-made woman. We’ve received so much from so many for so long that we can’t even keep count. But, simply because we can’t keep count, doesn’t mean we discount. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

Don't be discourage by your problems.Let your passion and dreams inspired you to keep moving forward. - Lailah Gifty Akita

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. - Orson Welles

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. - José Saramago

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap. - Amit Kalantri

The moment you are there You know but the moment cannot be explained for it is beyond language and expression. It is a moment of silence, joy, bliss, void, crying, dancing but nothing confirms to normal. - Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

The moment you let the mind overpower you, you get disconnected from nature. By and by you become less receptive more reactive; less innocent more cunning. Be wiser! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Tereza's death hurt me so much, it was as if I had two heads smashing into each other. One was full of mown love, the other of hate. I wanted the love to grow back. It grew like grass and straw, all mixed up together, and turned into an icy affirmation on my brow. That was my damn stupid plant. - Herta Müller

One: I am proud to say that my vampires do not sparkle.Two: I feel like in literature that we've gone [this way] towards the kissing vampires side of the needle. I think it's time we go back towards the killing vampires side of the needle. - Seth Grahame-Smith

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The idea [passing the 17th amendment] benefited from a unique political and cultural atmosphere that consumed a nation during the late 19th and early 20th centuries-a progressive populism promoting simultaneously radical egalitarianism and centralized authoritarianism. - Mark Levin

There is wonder in everything, the only thing you need to change to see it is your perspective. - Taylor Schake

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not. - Gore Vidal

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian. - A.E. Samaan

The only way to get over the pain is to face it, embrace it, hug it and learn the lessons embedded within it. - Adele Theron

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. - Charles Darwin

God doesn't need me to believe in Him. Believing in myself satisfies him just as much. - Euphoria Godsent

You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator? - Stewart Stafford

Too fair to worship, too divine to love. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'? - Joseph Henry Jackson

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. - Abraham Lincoln

These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories - Suman Pokhrel

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth. - Socrates

You’re saying you don’t want me?Aw hell. No, I’m saying this is a bad idea.You’re the king of bad ideas, he reminds me. At least this one ends with both of us feeling good. - Elle Kennedy & Sarina Bowen

Where music thundered let the mind be still,Where the will triumphed let there be no will,What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill. - May Sarton

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819 - Pierre Simon Laplace

All continuous suffering, is self inflicted. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three. - Henry Martin

She don't only believe in Shoes & cars.... She do believe in Super Star. That's the kind of girl you need bro, the girl that will believe in you & support your career. - GoalsRider

I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife - Edgar Allan Poe

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. - C.S. Lewis

I only found myself when I stopped looking. . . - Erik Christian

Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep. - Debasish Mridha

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. - Neil Gaiman

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development. - Alfred North Whitehead

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses. - James Rozoff

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible. - Henry Ford

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning. - Nova Ren Suma

After all, it isn't the facts of one's environment, but one's attitude toward them, that determines whether one will be defeated or victorious. - David Hawkins

And all I could see would be stars. And stars are the places where the molecules that life is made of were constructed billions of years ago. For example, all the iron in your blood which stops you from being anemic was made in a star. - Mark Haddon

Knowledge is truth. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Strategy is different from other things in that if your mistake the Way (of strategy), even a little, you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways.

Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, their lack of good fortunes or the quirks of fate. Everyone has within them the power to say, "This I am today, that I shall become tomorrow." The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds. - Louis L'Amour

One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality. - Steve Maraboli

Everything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hoped for, or looked for, or manipulated -- it's all been predicated on my ability to take a new road when it presented itself and to go with it."(On Beauty: , Vogue, January 8, 2016) - Susan Sarandon

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad. - George Bernard Shaw

I have been resurrected into the present time because the past is dead. - Susan Segovia Munoz

The slave is not afflicted with a punishment greater than the hardening of the heart and being distant from Allah. For the Fire was created to melt the hardened heart. The most distant heart from Allah is the heart which is hardened. If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry. - ابن قيم الجوزية

Life is the game that must be played - Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Bible talks primarily of two kinds of angels- Cherubim and Seraphim. But there is a third kind of angel. If you ever find yourself troubled, suffering or in despair, God may send you this third type of angel. These angels are called...'friends. - José N. Harris

Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul,and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love. - Sarah McLean

He who makes no secret of himself, enrages. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult. - Barack Obama

#Ola MusingsHer brow's penciled bowEyes tinged with kohl wowA mere passing shadow of hersCauses dust dry bloom wow!By nCr - NarayanChandraRauf

When someone cannot do without you, don't think he/she is weak. When he/she loves you, don't take that for granted.Experience has thought me that we all have the power to fall out of love at the same pace we fall in it. - Olaotan Fawehinmi

We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living. - Adam Leipzig

There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore. The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent. - Camelia C.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. - Mark Twain

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. - Andre Gide

Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament. - George Santayana

I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better. - Sara Sheridan

And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on HIs. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command the love itself. - Corrie ten Boom

1000 GODINA JAKE TRADICIJE HRISCANA DA PLJACKAJU JEDNI DRUGE: ZAPADNO EVROPSKI DO USAra HRISCANI STALNO NAPADAJU NA ISTOCNE HRISCANE I PLJACKAJU IH !!! - ALEKSANDAR SATARA

The reason politics makes strange bedfellows is because they all like the same bunk. - Los Angeles Times

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun

Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things. - Shunryu Suzuki

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. - Leo Buscaglia

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington

Healing is that place where we step into 20 seconds of insane courage because we need to either close that door or hold it open. Regardless of the outcome, the truth is what sets you free never the fear of not knowing. - Shannon L. Alder

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense - Chris Rock

The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum. - Joseph Epstein

When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description. - Sameh Elsayed

Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth! - Mehmet Murat ildan

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road. - Seneca

History is for everyone, but the memories of it is for those who experienced it. - ME :)

The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - Bede Jarrett

6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,and I still don’t know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hangovers to coffeeanother vagabond lost to love. - Charlotte Eriksson

I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box... - Rick Riordan

For true liberation, you do not need to fight. You simply have to change your thoughts and drift away from conformity, comfort, security, and certainty of life and embrace and enjoy the possibilities and magnificence of the uncertainty of life. - Debasish Mridha

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy. - Tyler Perry

I'm not perfect,I won't be. But I'm a human with mistakes and I'm coexisting with my mistakes - Mohammed Sekouty

If we are going to stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.

you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough. - Osho

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do... - John Geddes

Devoid of any real liberty or justice, America and her children had fallen prey to what amounted to little more than a thinly veiled dictatorship. She now represented not the proud citadel of freedom, but the failed experiment of democracy. - Eric J. Martindale

People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged. - DaShanne Stokes

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. - Fakeer Ishavardas

Look at your own behaviors and ask yourself, Would I want to be my friend??? - Ted Rubin

Mankind is flawed and to place absolute faith in it and it's understandings is flawed itself. - Chase Racek

If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff. - Richie Norton

The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

You can be treated badly. But you do not have to be bitter. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless. - Paul Johnson

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. - Francis Quarles

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. - Harold S. Hulbert

When you are always present in the now, you will never be shocked or surprised by anything: because you will see or sense the signs of the change or changes in something or someone as it/they happen right in-front of your very eyes. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. - Steve Maraboli

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. - Theodore Roosevelt

Fasten and hold knowledge and then protect it." He was asked that how couldit be fastened, and he replied: "by writing and scribing it - Anonymous

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine. - Woody Allen

I married beneath me - all women do. - Nancy Astor

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. - Felix Frankfurter

Someday find my son...tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth."--A Letter to Jesse Owens - Luz Long

The day you subscribe to being loved by everyone is the day you stop growing. - Mr Imbuya

Si mise a correre. Via. Lontano per non vedere.Ci sono corse che non hanno bisogno di nessuno spostamento. Si può anche stare immobili e finire lontani.Quella era una corsa così. - Isabella Santacroce

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life. - Helen Exley

Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! - Deyth Banger

Don’t become bigoted about bigots. - Scott Ross

Should' is my all time least favoriteword! It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up ourselves andothers. - Frank Beddor

There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason. - Gregory David Roberts

Broken things can be fixed and healed. Nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean. - Marika McCoola

I recognized your good character.Because of my silence, H. Koper - Petra Hermans

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment. - Gary Hopkins

Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked. - Laini Taylor

You don't need to be rich to have high confidence, all you do need is to be proud of yourself and there you'll go with confidence. - Auliq Ice

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilightNo I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright. - Joanna Newsom

Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves its consequences into an iron tissue of necessity. (Wakefield) - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. - Maria Edgeworth

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour - Sunday Adelaja

The echo of a red rose at the sunset, you decided to check out. - Santosh Kalwar

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. - Samuel Goldwyn

I hope you still dream when your eyes aint closed." -song:"As I Walk - Puerto Rican Princess

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance. - Anne Bradstreet

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 doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes. - Gaiman, Neil

The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes by which you make an influence! - Israelmore Ayivor

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA. - Alexander Chee

I’ve often lost faith in myself, I’ve never lost it in my family - David Sedaris

Public-sector employment - another way to be shielded from reality. - Mike Klepper

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness. - Matthew Donnelly

& may you shine on in the sky with diamonds & dreams...do it for the suit behind the platform, who only wished he were free.have strength in freedom. - L V HALL

Your words crossed a threshold,And entered the past,Yet they have created,A word that will last. - Somya Kedia

The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween. - Israelmore Ayivor

What’s it like being a writer? Mostly it’s like being a child surrounded by adults. My friends have grown-up careers. They balance spreadsheets, analyze data, negotiate deals. They build things, heal patients, teach children. Meanwhile, I’m over here saying Let’s pretend. - Jennifer Froelich

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. - Samuel Johnson

Saddest thing nowadays is that words can kill - Freedom Goodbird

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. - Jeffrey T. Borenstein

No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. - Leon Wieseltier

I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many pieces of my love away. I hope I can give it all to someone, someday. - Hubert Martin

Sacredness is spirituality. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding. - Billy Graham

She looked at her best friend as he unraveled the tightly wound cord from his heart and told her what she had been hoping to hear." from the upcoming The Witch of Belle Fleur - Isabelle Hardesty

PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles. Judibras - Ambrose Bierce

I can never be satisfied; I always look for more. - Ane Krstevska

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. - Jane Austen

Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence. - Israelmore Ayivor

When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others; if that doesn't happen there is nothing wrong with God's finger there is something wrong with your heart - rassool jibraeel snyman

For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past,The reason why men lived and worked and died,The essence and quintessence of their lives. - Amy Lowell

A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. - George Carlin

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all. - Deepak Chopra

DNA, DNA, DNA. You never ever deny it, fool. I thought he is my cold enemy. When he died, he became my father. Says Bhutta (Biography) - M.K. Bhutta

Your mind is everything. If you can control it, you can be the King of the universe. - Sharfaraz Ahmed

But Ana, how could I have been such a lousy judge of character?" I groaned."Because you don't much care to judge people's characters," she answered after a moment's thought. "It's a strength, you know, as well as weakness."It was small consolation. - Chris Stewart

Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am. - Stanley Kunitz

You need peace to ground you and courage to act from the centre of yourself. - Jay Woodman

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content. - Niccolo Machiavelli

If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962. - John F. Kennedy

The best method to make orders, is when you falling into a dream. And then your orders are appeared in life, are they appeared in real life, or they appeared in new life dream.And why, the best method when you are falling into dream? - VicDoo

Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float back to the floor from whence it came. Wealth can gray your eyes at the edges, money does not make you hover above human qualities, you are only a flawed being with much material gain. - Crystal Evans

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. - Rod Serling

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. - Edgar Watson Howe

Hate lawyers all you want. Unlike you, we'll never be replaced with robots. Case closed! - Natalya Vorobyova

Adisson… dedi.Ben Adisson eee…sadece Adisson,çünkü bana daha bir soyad vermedin. - Aslı Seymen

The philosophy of project-based homeschooling — this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers — is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the children. - Lori McWilliam Pickert

Nismo odustali, samo smo nastavili dalje.Toksicne veze nisu vredne spasavanja. - Tamara Stamenkovic

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. - Jorge Luis Borges

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was... - Terry Pratchett

The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth. - Sunday Adelaja

If worries begin, then realize that the task at hand is going to be disturbed and if worries do not occur, then know that the task will not be disturbed. Worries are obstacles to the work. - Dada Bhagwan

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. - Edgar Allan Poe

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes. - C. JoyBell C.

Knowledge is your shield; wisdom is your spear. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth - Madeleine L'Engle

Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I found an easy way to make it so. I simply turned my back on what was coming. - John Wray

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love - Erich Fromm

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us. - Friedrich Nietzsche

It has been often found the best to refrain from putting a LIKE on a person's online post which is liked by many people in one’s network, for a fear of making unintentionally a fun of him/her like others. - Anuj Somany

Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Wherever freedom is being discussed, we're all part of the conversation. - Marty Rubin

If you just did what you wanted to do, and didn't care what anyone thought, you'd be Autistic. - Seamus McDuff

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon. - Kurt Vonnegut

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a - George S. Clason

Have you ever met someone for the first time but feel like you've known them all your life, a sense of déjàvu and synchronicity wrapped into one little motherf*cking mystery to untangle the way our lives are ruled by logic. I have and my life has never been the same since. - Nikki Rowe

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. - Brian Tracy

La educación de la mujer no puede llamarse tal educación, sino doma, pues se propone por fin la obediencia, la pasividad y la sumisión. - Emilia Pardo Bazán

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

Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance. - Shannon L. Alder

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

Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned. - Ina Catrinescu

Did he know that God loved him from the foundations of the earth? With a power far exceeding the immensity of the cosmos, He turned all His attention to creating that man and declared, "You are My child. I love you. - Nabeel Qureshi

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. - Harlan Coben

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. - Orison Swett Marden

She was starmetal bones with kaleidoscope eyes. A cracked framework of unique beauty, a patchwork portrait filled with swirling brush strokes, an amalgamation of delicate light and detailed shatter. I could write a novel about the way she breathes. - Hubert Martin

Success or failure inbusiness is caused more by mental attitude even than by mentalcapacity." Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confidentattitude. And remember that the only way to acquire it is—toacquire it. - Walter Dill Scott

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination. - Jonathan Franzen

The highest freedom of mind comes from becoming non-judgmental. - Debasish Mridha

Mediocrity in life is acceptable only when one excels at it. - ShyWriter

I am, a shadowthat grows longer as the sunmoves, drawn outon a thread of wonder.If I bear burdensthey begin to be rememberedas gifts, goods, a basketof bread that hurtsmy shoulders but closes mein fragrance. I caneat as I go. ("Stepping Westward") - Denise Levertov

Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight. - Marina Tavares Dias

The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon against some neighbor's heart. - Francis de Sales

Anyone who's ever significantly changed the course of humanity has either been a Crackpot, a Heretic, or a Dissident. In the case of Albert Einstein, he was all three! - Carl Sagan

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. - David Sedaris

Happiness in your life is directly related to your ability to love, not your ability to earn. - Debasish Mridha

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. - Edmund Burke

RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs. - Ambrose Bierce

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

POWER WITHOUT WISDOM IS WASTED ENERGY - KAMILAH WILLACY

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State. - Murray N. Rothbard

A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought in making you. - Khaled Hosseini

Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294 - Michael Benzehabe

In business, you must remain unattached to the outcome. It matters not who is chosen first and who is chosen second. The only thing that matters is the final verdict. - Laura Moncur

I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light without dark, no success without failure, no relief without pain, no love without hatred and no Snow White without the evil queen. - Girl234

The strength of survival in life lies in strong-minded soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. - Milton Friedman

Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don’t feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they’re stuck right where they started: Guilty. - Geoffrey Wood

Powerful and Positive thoughts create Pure and Transcendental emotions that can instantly connect two individual soul in different part of this world or universe through the medium of love - Indy Bissessur

My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. - Rita Rudner

Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it.

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled. - Shakti Gawain

Knowledge is learning something from every observation; wisdom is learning to use that knowledge with love. - Debasish Mridha

Have you sipped your poems today? - Helvy Tiana Rosa

Each meditation should last hours - three, four, six hours. - Samael Aun Weor

I get it, you know. I'm operating on privilege too. It may be a number of notches down from yours but it's every bit as unearned. I think the trick is to never forget it. - Sabrina Vourvoulias

In this world, two ilk of men exist-those who think they don't need to, and those who think they must. A third alien type exists when indecisiveness is involved. - Solange nicole

When reality hurts, make sure to soar above the dream-stained sky! - Munia Khan

Dying Speech of an Old PhilosopherI strove with none, for none was worth my strife.Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art:I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;It sinks; and I am ready to depart. - Walter Savage Landor

According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cookethat Slavic and much Spanish music use minor keys for happy music, he claimed that their liveswere so hard that they didn’t really know what happiness was anyway. - David Byrne

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi

I'm not an Emontional, but how???I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has happen and it can't be changed", "..But probably it is for good". - Deyth Banger

Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely. - Abhijit Naskar

Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated. - Donna Lynn Hope

For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook. - Quentin Crisp

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."

What is chemistry in a relationship, Really? Chemistry can be spontaneous combustion that excites, incites, often harms. But not understood. Chemistry can also be that which is studied, intentional, and knows how to be repeated and improved upon. Do you have the right chemistry? - Lucille Anderson

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply. - Os Guinness

When we have reached the depths of despair, only then can we look up and see the light of hope. - Stephen Richards

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life. - William Shakespeare

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife. - Ambrose Bierce

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected. - Chuck Jones

True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do’s and don’ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. - L. Frank Baum

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Forget vampires, he laughed dismissively. Who wants to drink blood for eternity? What we have discovered is far more seductive and a great deal more dangerous… - Pat Spence - Blue Moon

Tipani flower skies blazing rapture of color laced tree crowns silhouettes along the ocean diamond necklaced beach...of my heart in fragrance of love spilled by caressing kisses of the sun opening the gates to dive deep through away to horizons with no return... - Oksana Rus

It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed. - Thomas C. Mann

Our choices define who we are when we make them. Therefore, we always have the power to change and choose who we are. - Eda Dagli

No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I was dismissed from that station by the failure of my election. - John Quincy Adams

Where the human knowledge ends, God's wisdom and power begins to manifest in abundance. - Gugu Mona

The greatest tragedy is not death but a life without love - Robin Dabhi

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. - Margaret Mitchell

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by. - A.S. Byatt

(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not wish to understand because one feared it, something to which one paid tribute lest it should feel offended and seize one, body and soul. - Arthur Holitscher

Saint, noun. A dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible. - William James

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk. - Patrick Rothfuss

The sky's gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything. Awesome. Doomsday's most definitely been cancelled. Landscape: When God Paints Outside The Lines - Jandy Nelson

The sacred souls are saved by grace. - Lailah Gifty Akita

My original intent was to write a horror story about someone who loses his mind and slowly begins to unravel. The story, as I envisioned it, would evoke horror within the context of psychological decay, entropy. - Jupiter Cutter

It is not important that how you are crushed, it is important that how much time you sustain it. Be sustainable !! - Aditya Pandya

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. - R. D. Laing

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life. - Terry Pratchett

I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another. - Thomas Jefferson

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. - Og Mandino

God sends someone for each and every one of us to help with our loss. We just have to accept it. - Saim .A. Cheeda

Living is not enough; we must live an illuminated life. - Debasish Mridha

You need to choose your association according to your vision. - Onyi Anyado

Strive like a seed to grow - Rajesh Walecha

Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory. - Ray Charles

We are just misguided ghostsTravelling endlesslyThe ones we trusted the mostPushed us far awayAnd there's no one roadWe should not be the sameBut I'm just a ghostAnd still they echo meThey echo me in circles - Paramore

Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first. - Frederick Smock

genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration - Thomas Edison

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...This was untrue, of course. - Adam Haslett

When we're inspired by the desire to practice and transform our suffering, the mind of the moment is very beautiful. Sometimes we call it the mind of love. It's because of love that we practice. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Someone said: friends are the thiefs of time. I shall add: of time, freedom, life; and givers of best memories, brightest moments, true feelings. - Mykyta Isagulov

To realize that we are just a breath away from eternity takes a lot of guts and brain power. So, spend your breath wisely. - Jestoni Revealed

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. - George Santayana

Worship offered with stale flower and an unclean mind is of no value - Radhe Maa

Marx hated weakness in men, and considered the making of moral judgements as the last resort of the weak. To say 'That is morally wrong' is implicitly to say ' I am powerless to stop that, so I will inveigh against it'. - Paul Robert Wolff

The last Christian died on the cross.

Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out. - Ali Vincent

Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist. - Anne Stevenson

Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter. - Niall Williams

We have shed many tears to toughen the soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Wondering why you survived don't help you survive - Jeannette Walls (Author)

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. - Alfred North Whitehead

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

​Pass on bravery and wisdom to the future generations, not some ragged traditions and baseless cowardice. - Abhijit Naskar

She never wished for the thing what she is experiencing. It is her inner voice that became her enemy. - Durgesh Satpathy

I may have not done History in high school but War cannot be ended by endless talks, only Cold War. - Goitsemang Mvula

Life is a sexually transmitted disease. - R. D. Laing

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. - Gertrude Stein

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect. - Joss Whedon

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. - Terry Goodkind

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. - Anaïs Nin

She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless - Isha Karki

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read. - Neil Gaiman

The sacred words penetrate the heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you. - Vironika Tugaleva

Jede Propaganda ist so gefährlich wie die Dummheit, auf die sie trifft. - Serdar Somuncu

Gratitude is one of the virtues of the noble man. It is the hallmark of a life lived well. It is a trademark of the righteous man. It is an attribute that significantly impacts on your personal happiness and how sound your relationship will be with others. - Sesan Kareem

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy. - J.K. Rowling

Letting go is not getting rid of memories. Memories will stay, they always do. Letting go is making sure that the pain associated with the memories goes away. - Arti Honrao

A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn’t realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool. - Mahavira

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn? - Susan B Anthony Collection

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus. - Shannon L. Alder

Better to do planning,Rather than being planned. - Harry PS

… we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence … - Margaret Wheatley

I’m a screwed-up person who no longerknows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter. - Matthew Quick

Patience is for those who can't be bothered with procrastination! - Sharon Fletcher

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Karl Feyerabend

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry. - Henry James

Remove the letter 'I'(EGO) and word 'WANT'(DESIRE) from the statement "I WANT HAPPINESS" and you will be remained with 'HAPPINESS - Gauthama Buddha

The Annual Register for 1763 tabulated the casualty list for British sailors in the Seven Years' War with France. Out of 184,899 men raised or rounded up for the war, 133, 708 died from disease, primarily scurvy, while only 1,512 were killed in action. - Stephen R. Brown

when true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the changing of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. - Euripides

I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things. - Ronald Reagan

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. - T.S. Eliot

To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget. A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records. - Sarah Manguso

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time. - Abi bin Abi Taleb

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. - Edgar Allan Poe

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. - Frank Crane

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense. - Gary Zukav

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. - Anaïs Nin

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world - Kenneth Grahame

Your past is where you learned the lesson. Now is when you get to apply it. - Karen Salmansohn

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. - Alfred North Whitehead

Hidden inside every flower are seeds of imagination, destiny and future dreams. - Sondra Faye

She stops chewing and brings the chains on her wrist up to her nose and sniffs. She pulls away with a mild disgusted expression. "Definitely smells like a skank... - J.A. Redmerski

I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war than threaten to steal a man's soul. - Christina Henriquez

I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God’s timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted. - Tony Dungy

What's happened with humanity, if was born inhuman man. 26.05.13 - VicDo

The artist's greatest creation beganthe night he washed his memory of his failuresrubbed opium on his lipsdrank the wine that women offered himand lay down and wept. - Roman Payne

Isn't it ironic, The brilliant minds who've made the lives of others easier and enjoyable, are considered the "Crazy people". - Andrea L'Artiste

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. - Marilyn Manson

I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow. - Nikki Rowe

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. - Grover Cleveland

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him. - Oswald Chambers

Sometimes it took death for me to see life, don't live with regrets keep your head high. In a world filled with beauty I don't want to blink twice; soak up every moment because you can't stop time. - Puerto Rican Princess

If the world is to hear the church's voice today, leaders are needed who are authoritative, spiritual, and sacrificial. Sacrificial, because this trait follows the model of Jesus, who gave Himself for the whole world and who calls us to follow in His steps. - J. Oswald Sanders

Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls "Knock and Pray". He says parents should invite their kids to unscheduled times to "pray... big". - Jay Payleitner

Her belly ruptures full of parasites, Her eyes sink back in her skull Her butchered wrists, dangle From the edge of the bathtubHer children cuddle against her Desperate for love she cannot give - Wrath James White

No matter where you are, you are connected to me by a bridge and that is our love. - Debasish Mridha

Hearts shall dance once again; when canvas of ice is painted with the brush of skates. - Shah Asad Rizvi

The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect. - Gary Haugen

If you want to succeed, you'd better look as if you mean business.

Vaccination was, and is, thoroughly infused with our politics, our social values, and our cultural norms. By acknowledging and understanding the divergent reasons why we've vaccinated in the past, however, we just may ensure the continued success of vaccination in the future. - Elena Conis

It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42 - Alaa Al Aswany

There is a distinct difference between Darkness and Satan. Darkness is silence, the void, Zen; nothingness. Satan was a pig-headed being who fought to get his way. Wake up! Don't let him have his way anymore. - Solange nicole

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face - J.R.R. Tolkien

Love is a shared solitude. - Marty Rubin

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists. - Kedar Joshi

One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself………. - Sameh Elsayed

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist. - Julia Kristeva

What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them! - Ken Puddicombe

All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010) - George Michael Sinclair Kennedy

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. - Kafka, Franz

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle. - Grant M. Bright

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space. - Arthur C. Clarke

Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path. - Donna Goddard

i wasn't made but i was created for the better intention i know my time is coming - Futty-fuze

The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish. - Pansy Schneider-Horst

.. And then he remembered that darkness was his best friend and it will always be. - Tahar Mtibaa

I realize my heart is forever Inexperienced. It does fall for the same tricks over and over again - Manasa Rao Saarloos

I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself. - Abby Norman

The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth. - Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud

Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me. - Tamora Pierce

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him. - Katharine Hepburn

I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming. - Mitch Hedberg

Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children. - Asa Don Brown

We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us. - Storm Jameson

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney. - Sonia Rumzi

Of course I loved books more than people. - Diana Setterfield

To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Though often scoffed at by serious writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just as predictors of technology. Many of these writers translate the –isms of our times into imagined futures populated with characters coping with the consequences. - Frank Daniels III

The Djojobojo Prophecy doesn't just tell you WHAT happened and WHERE it happened...it tells you WHY it happened! - Yvonne B Murtha

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men,Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again. - Edward Thomas

What comes from experience is knowledge,what comes naturally is wisdom. - NITYA MORE

your gazeacrossmy cheeksturned theminto strawberry fields. - Sanober Khan

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith. - Thomas Jefferson

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. - Cicero

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. - Mae West

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

put out the candles with your fire—I’m on fire - John Geddes

Dreams are reality for the subconscious mind, but wisdom is the perception of knowledge. Wisdom is the internalization of knowledge. - Debasish Mridha

I only need to close my eyes to find the inner peace within my soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

the measure of achievements in life are directly related to the acquire knowledge, not to the social recognition. - Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. - Benjamin Disraeli

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. - Isaac Babel

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. - James Joyce

Always let your talent and tenacity do the talking. Never your tantrums or sense of self righteousness or entitlement. For it is your talent and tenacity that will carve out, shape and seal your possibilities and destiny. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider audience. - Robert Harris

I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the suppression of feminism.Under my definition, helping oppressed women in other countries falls outside the scope of the movement's interests. - Mike Adams

Be rooted in the word of God. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I am charting a course that will become a seed which may fall to the ground and die. But out of it shall arise many seeds and trees that shall become a plantation of light, which would usher in a new dawn of Gods righteousness to the church, Nigeria, and to Africa. - Sunday Adelaja

Nothing in life is fair except a witnessed duel. - Lynda Williams

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. - Hippocrates

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today. - Edith Hamilton

I can all have all the money in the world, hold all the power, or be worshiped like a god but all are meaningless without love. - Joyce Guo

WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oilin studies diligent and slow,teaches himself, with painful toil,the things that other people know. - Piet Hein

Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them. - Lecrae Moore

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams. - Steven Millhauser

God indeed has given the earth under to the control of man. - Sunday Adelaja

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands. - Havelock Ellis

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. - Ethel Barrett

literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people. - Gabriel García Márquez

Love is blind. Love of money is blind. Greed and money make people forfeit the quiddity of life, banish them from what is essential and alienate them from themselves. They lose their identity and become drifting exiles. ( "Money rocking and rolling" ) - Erik Pevernagie

Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is. - Seneca

LIFE is simply COMPLICATED. - shaikh mustafa

It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation. - Paul Louis Couchoud

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. - Aldous Huxley

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

Smartass Disciple: Master, what do say about the truth itself ?Master of Stupidity: Like sex, no fun anymore if all is revealed. - Toba Beta

This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products - Larry McCaffrey

Your intelligence is defined by your intuitive question not by your definitive answers. - Debasish Mridha

I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves. - Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father’s extended absences. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow

Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul."At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary - Sharon K. Garner

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. - Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

And now the birds were singing overhead, and there was a soft rustling in the undergrowth, and all the sounds of the forest that showed that life was still being lived blended with the souls of the dead in a woodland requiem. The whole forest now sang for Granny Weatherwax. - Terry Pratchett

Entrepreneurship is like a weighing machine whose load content should tilt towards passion to solve a pressing need, more than passion to make money. - Auliq-Ice

Von der Pressefreiheit hängt praktisch jede andere Freiheit ab. - Salvador de Madariaga

The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense. - Michelle M. Pillow

Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction. - Laura Schlessinger

The Great Way is not named; Great Discriminations are not spoken; Great Benevolence is not benevolent; Great Modesty is not humble; Great Daring does not attack. If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way. - Chuang Chou

Unfortunately, the vast majority of mankind, prefers silence; forever trapped in the fine art of self poisoning. - Efrat Cybulkiewicz

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. - Harlan Ellison

They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact. - Paco Ignacio Taibo II