Quotation Explorer - 'To'

We can get angry: it's even healthy to get angry from time to time. - Pope Francis

Prayer bends the omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Work, home, or play we should all aspire to inspire everyday. - Mark W. Boyer

A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality. - Israelmore Ayivor

What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus. - Beth Moore

I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons. - Bob Proctor

Gratitude is the heart of humility, and humility is the path to peace, love, and understanding. - Justin Young

The way to final freedom is within thy self. - The Book of the Golden Precepts

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. - Salvador Dali

Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn. - Gwen Ro

When we think carefully about the past, we get to know and understand not just what happened in the past but what really went into things that happened in the past. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed! - Augustine of Hippo

Don’t ask me to apologize for holding up a mirror. If you don’t like what it’s reflecting, take accountability and change it. - Steve Maraboli

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them. - Toni Morrison

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

Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years! - Tanya Masse

There is no limit to the heights we can reach if we take action by faith. - Lailah Gifty Akita

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create. - Donal Logue

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old. - Mimsy Sadofsky

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. - Carl Sagan

If you want to have the time of your life, change how you use the time in your life. - Tim Fargo

America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable - Hunter S. Thompson

Jesus came to give us life to the very edges of life. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Every religion should be in favor of humankind. - Santosh Kalwar

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. - Kurt Vonnegut

As needle become forbidden for tongue, so lies is forbidden in relationship. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun

Today, make time to play. - Na'ama Yehuda

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. - Benjamin Disraeli

Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them.Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness. - Mizuki Nomura

Every moment you lose your temper, you lose a moment of opportunity to love. - Debasish Mridha

We only get to receive what we internally give to ourselves through the programming of our internal representations. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

It is easy to find peace if you are kind, loving, and forgiving. - Debasish Mridha

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. - Walt Disney Company

The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The call to take the land ...is not a call to a new political, cultural or geographical dominance. It is Kingdom of God territory. It is the will of the Eternal God being done on earth, as it is in heaven. - Ken Baker

He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. - Wendell Berry

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears. - Michel Foucault

It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.

Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success. - Stephen Richards

If life didn’t give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff, in order to prove them wrong. - Shannon L. Alder

No matter how dire a situation may be, I can always find the humor in it somewhere. If I was ever in a horror movie I would be the goofy one who doesn't seem to know quite what's going on but survives to the end with witty one-liners. - A.J. Rose

The greatest triumph is victory over all trials. - Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone. - Wendy Wasserstein

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge. - Christopher Hitchens

I scroll through iPhone photos and see that if I delete pictures of myself with a double chin, I will erase all proof of my glorious life. - Helen Ellis

So much drama off and online...Be kind and respect others.Follow the golden rule. Always.Don't step on others.Chase your dreams the right way.Keep your head up. Then, everything else will take care of itself. - K.J. Kilton

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. - Lena Dunham

Fairness as a principle doesn't work if applied only in response to demand; it must be safeguarded and promoted even when its beneficiaries don't realize what they are missing. - Linda Babcock & Sara Laschever

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do. - Cory Doctorow

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. - David Ogilvy

I Wish This To Never End. - Chris Mentillo

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. - Lord Macaulay

To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body. - Seneca

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? - Edith Wharton

One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much. - Jael McHenry

When you open your heart to someone, you're also exposing it to pain. - Lisa De Jong

We can't always take the higher road when faced with adversity. Sometimes for the sake of restoration, peace and sharing the love of Jesus, we have to walk through the tribulation. - Chris Vonada

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose. - Stephen Jones

Don't wait for a reason to feel the joy. Life is for joy. - Debasish Mridha

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. - Benjamin Johnson

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. - Winston Churchill

You are to me,what wind is to dry leaves.The reason for me to fall,the reason for me to fly. - Seekerohan

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be. - Theodora Goss

About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you. - Nikita Khrushchev

I need more blankets. This world is too cold. - Anjali Prabodh

Art is to console those who are broken by life. - Vincent Van Gogh

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing. - Rebecca Manley Pippert

Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is. - Oscar Wilde

Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live. - Victor Hugo

...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. - Anne Lamott

...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source. - Ruth Reichl

God is not someone you meet when you die. His smiling face will be the first and the most familiar to greet you on the other side of mortality. You’ll recognize Him and know in your heart of hearts that you’re not entering a new sphere, but returning home to the place you’ve always belonged. - Toni Sorenson

Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting. - Shannon L. Alder

Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore. - Thea Dorn

We are pushed towards eternal silence from the moment we are born. So when sadness tries to stifle us, we must not give in. We must keep whispering. - Shaun Hick

It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise - Rasheed Ogunlaru

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees. - Stormie Omartian

Fearing failure is fearing life. Failure is a great way to learn from life. - Debasish Mridha

We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe. - Chris Hedges

Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source. - Mary Morrissey

When we are gone, the only essential thing we will leave behind are the memories we create in the lives of those we have touched and those we love. - Michael Hyatt

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. - Michel Foucault

The storm is an artist; the rainbow is its masterpiece. - Matshona Dhliwayo

They weren't hours, these classes; they weren't even forty-five minutes--they were "periods," which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it. - Gary Lutz

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes. - Dale Renton

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? - Thomas Sowell

Thoughts can be easily expressed by words but feelings are very hard to express by words. - Luffina Lourduraj

When every piece falls into place, it's like a dance, a delicate but powerful balancing act. The art of holding on and letting go at the same time. - Kristin Bartley Lenz

Now that we have all this useful information, it would be nice to do something with it. (Actually, it can be emotionally fulfilling just to get the information. This is usually only true, however, if you have the social life of a kumquat.)

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Every person should have the right to practice and believe what they want, as long as it does not infringe on another person’s freedom. - Michael Phillip Cash

Leave some mystery to the world and they will remember you forever. - Amit Kalantri

You learnt a great deal, Louisa, and so did your brother. Ologies of all kinds from morning to night. If there is any Ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags in this house, all I can say is, I hope I shall never hear its name - Charles Dickens

It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury

We Christians are bound hands and feet, sitting down in the pews instead of going out to explore the earth for the Son of God, king of kings and the Lord of Lords - Sunday Adelaja

I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion. - Oliver

A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge. - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

I really can't stress this enough. If you want to make an impact, don't simply sit idly by and 'hope' for courage. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision made in determining what is more important than fear. - M.B. Dallocchio

Don't try to be different, that's not you, but just try to be yourself & that will make all the difference. - Michael Moses

If you allow the life to happen, by connecting with your inner world, then you don’t have to worry about the changes with your perception or the change in the outside world. All you have to do is to follow your inner truth, to reach to your destination. - Roshan Sharma

Problems and mistakes are a gift inside our life as a given lesson to make us stronger for a better future. - Jan Jansen

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards. - Gillian Duce

They told me adventures were over, so I got off the internet and got on a plane. They told me kindness was a thing of the past, so I spent a year helping others in need. They told me love was dead, so I fell into it. Head over heels. - Abby Lass

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example. - Albert Schweitzer

Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner. - Christof Koch

You used to make me feel like I could walk on waterNow most nights I'm just sinking down and downYou're the reason why I can't listen to the same songs I used to - Real Friends

They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man. - Anthony Green

WISDOM - The ability to accept our limitations and learn from the viewpoints of others - Kamil Ali

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. - G. K. Chesterton

Your actions are viewed by observers through prisms shaped by their own interpretations, and sometimes misinterpretations. All you can do is strive to be your best self. Let the chips fall where they may. - Cathryn Louis

Go according to your curiosity. - Debasish Mridha

People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, `What? You`re married?` Strange reaction to have. Proves what people`s ideas about marriage are. `We`re having a baby.` `What?` As if it`s the end of the world. Of course, it`s the start of a brilliant world. - Ewan McGregor

May the light of your love have enough power to extinguish all the darkness from the world. - Debasish Mridha

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational. - Charles M. Schulz

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm. - Ambrose Bierce

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin

you are a ring tone on the phone I didn’t answer - John Geddes

No one is blessed to love more than one to the peak level except mother! - Nelson Jack

If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it's not their fault, it's our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on us, to educate them in proper ways. - Debasish Mridha

A kiss is just a kiss, were words not expressed by a man tied naked to a tree. - Dixie Waters

You can never learn to be strong if you have not fallen and got up by yourself. - Auliq Ice

It is not how long it takes one to succeed in life that matters but how well. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other. - Russ von Hoelscher

I am responsible only to God and history.

There's a beginning to every story but there's never a story that begins the same. - B.K Laurel

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

Be neither too remote nor too familiar. - Prince Charles

The covetous man is ever in want. - Horace

Let us create the tsunami of love to flatten the world with joy. - Debasish Mridha

Nunca un caballero que se aprecie de serlo desaira a una dama en sus deseos aunque uno vea el engaño en sus ojos, pues todo hombre debe saber antes de comenzar a amar en la vida, que la sonrisa de una mujer hermosa es como una rosa en la punta de una daga. - Ignacio Ramírez "El Nigromante"

Do not live WITH what you had done...Live FOR what you have to do. - RD

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it. - Ron Brackin

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state which first makes conflict unavoidable and permanent. - Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Whence but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts,In several ages born, in several parts,Weave such agreeing truths? Or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie? - John Dryden

Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I think that we were both the same star in the beginning of the universe and as the star exploded we drew apart. Our atoms merging into two different bodies, but over time our atoms found a way and found each other again. - Michaela Ruiz

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue. - Franz Kafka

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. - P. G. Wodehouse

Love won't die until humanity does.-, reply toa YouTube video. - De Du

Real problems in life are those related to your wellbeing and the wellbeing of your loved ones... Everything else is NOT a problem! - Samer Chidiac

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." Walter Lippmann. - Ignatius Fernandez

Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans were like brothersIn the brave days of old. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get. - Christopher Babson

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way. - Shannon L. Alder

In order to become great we must allows others to become great before us, and not be envious of their greatness but rather rejoice in it. So that when we become great, there will be others who shall rejoice in ours. - George Mercado

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it? - Stanley Victor Paskavich

When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best decision, to make an incrediable self-image is the best. - Deyth Banger

I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.What help could I give him? I am no maester, to ease his pain. I have no spell to give him back his legs.You gave me help when I needed it Jon Snow said.I gave you nothing, Tyrion said. Words.Then give your words to Bran too. - George R.R. Martin

There was so much to say that we said nothing. - Philip Schuyler Allen

The future is just a memory that has yet to be born - Dean Cavanagh

Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity. - Saadat Hasan Manto

Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever. - R. N. Prasher

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart . - Stephen King

That's scary, all the time to be afraid Wreck 2015 (Film, you should check it out). - Deyth Banger

You can’t let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take. - S. Usher Evans

Skills or professionalism is another factor of growth - Sunday Adelaja

We're all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It's never too late, we're never too old to rock the world and contribute! Reaching for intimacy in all relationships? Delicious. - Pamela Taeuffer

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness. - Pearl Buck

Petra is a brilliant display of man's artistry in turning barren rock into a majestic wonder. - Edward Dawson

Be a critical thinker too sometimes. Look in to your heart and give your self permission to ask your mind and question the teachings that doesn't resonate with the wisdom of your soul. - Angie karan

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson

The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks. - Darnell Lamont Walker

We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

nowhere in this universe does evil exist except in the mind of mankind. only man can take an idea or symbol which is so simple and innocent, and then twist it and corrupt it until it is something to hate or kill one another over. - Andrew James Pritchard

Never try to be happy but always try to make someone happy. All the happiness in the world will be yours. - Debasish Mridha

Souls woven together by the gods can never be unraveled.

And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities. - Toni Sorenson

Everyone who's born has a mysterious life path to follow. We must live to find that one reason to live - Suchet chaturvedi

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by , evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. Ernst W. Mayr - Lamarck

Have a dream or vision? Keep striving toward it, never give up on it, pray about it and ask God to bless it. And no matter who doesn't believe or understand it, it's because it’s not for them, it's for YOU. - Pauline Seaport

To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be. - Debasish Mridha

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. - Bertrand Russell

Music is the building block for things yet to come. - Imani Nettles

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value. - Shannon L. Alder

The only thing that can stop pain is love. - Mark A. Sheppard

Keep your goal challenging enough that you have to change to achieve it. - Debasish Mridha

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

..be able and willing to action regardless of all trauma, all the No’s, and non-supporters one could headache and pain on. - K. Abernathy Can You Action Past Your Devil's Advocate

Mnogo je skrivenih radosti koje čekaju istigfar da ih otkrije. - Hajrudin Ahmetović

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. - Socrates

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time. - Julian Barnes

David Bowie was my creative northstar, a muse, an inspiration to me from the age of 8. He was a special soul on a mission, and the mission is now complete. I know he is truly home now among the stars. - Eileen Anglin

People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton] - Don Draper from 'Mad Men'

Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling. - Luis Buñuel

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal - Howard Gardner

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. - Alanis Obomsawin

You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance. - Gary Hopkins

You know some minutes warn you they're going to be mighty short and you'd better take a snapshot of 'em while you can. ("Golden Baby") - Alice Brown

Conquering your fear gives you the best victory. - Debasish Mridha

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it. - Geoffrey Wood

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape, till custom make it their perch and not their terror. - William Shakespeare

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction. - Toni Morrison

Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowed, and a shiny line of snot trickles from her nose to the top of her lip.She wipes her face and with her arm, smearing tears and mucus. She never looked more BEAUTIFUL to me. - Beth Revis

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet. - Fawzi Ibrahim

In order to discern truth in our hearts, we must unpack the lies". HS/el - Evinda Lepins

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

Accept all of you, the good with the bad, the successes with the failures, the times you shone and the mistakes you made. It will bring into a place of peace. It will help you to move forward with your life. - Eileen Anglin

The price of greatness is responsibilty. - Winston Churchill James

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. - Jorge Luis Borges

God’s secrets are revealed to us through the inter-communication of the spirit of man withthe Spirit of God. - Sunday Adelaja

Life has its ups and downs. When you are up, enjoy the scenery. When you are down, touch the soul of your being and feel the beauty. - Debasish Mridha

Greatness in the making feels just like you feel right now - TemitOpe Ibrahim

There once was a young man from Lyme Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme When asked "Why not?" It was said that he thought They were probably too long and badly structured and not at all very funny. - Anonymous

The old lie; Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland) - Wilfred Owen

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. - Toni Morrison

Today, I don't want to ask for anythingI just want to give thanks for Everything I already have. - Nikki Rowe

If you enslave me with fake money, and I realize enslavement is fake. Its in your best interest to set me free! - Tice Davids aka David T. Parker

Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. - Edmund Beecher Wilson

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool. - Tom Dolby

And in the endthe love you takeis equal tothe love you make - The Beatles

For students of every ability and background, it is the simply miraculous act of reading a good book that turns them into readers. The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands. - Nancy Atwell

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. - Thomas Paine

Let us all love each other. Every morning, let us sing a song of peace together. - Debasish Mridha

Do not seek to control other souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves - Margaret Mead

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it. - Ayn Rand

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught. - Henry James

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. - Pearl S. Buck

It's precarious to hang onto the veracity of memory because its edges are smoothed by the river of time. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. - Mark Twain

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. - Aldo Leopold

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. - Martha Washington

Be wise enough to forgive; be kind enough to love. - Debasish Mridha

Life turns to be colorless when people you trust the most ignore in times of sorrow. - Srinivas Shenoy

I know there are days when we want to be liked by others a little more than we want to change the world. But, if we decided to speak up a little more and hesitate a little less, we will begin making ripples of change. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

Don’t ever compliment me by insulting other women. That’s not a compliment, it’s a competition none of us agreed to. - Anonymous

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. - William Shakespeare

But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality. - William R. Inge

Everything God does—past, present, or future, whether in grace or in judgment—is to reveal His glory. - Jim George

A man, who does not commit an evil act either, has no opportunity or the stomach. - M.F. Moonzajer

Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command - Israelmore Ayivor

If the future historians were to digitally unearth our generation, they would decipher the facial expressions on the "Selfie's" as the generation of people suffering from wide spread constipation! - Vishwanath S J

The fear of what might happen stops people but the trauma process is so beautiful and transformational. There is nothing to fear in our emotions, they will not swallow you whole - they will speak to you in profound ways. - Adele Theron

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. - Voltaire

A consistent attitude of thankfulness will turn your success into significance. - Farshad Asl

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs. - Cato the Elder

Detach yourself from people that only exists when they need something from you. From people who only calls you a friend when they have favors and leave you behind afterwards. Remove toxic people in your life, they will become a hindrance to you. - Dembe Michael

When you're angry and the fire of revenge is burning your mind, that is the best time to practice calmness, forgiveneess, kindness and love - Debasish Mridha

We are spirits clad in veils. - Christopher Pearse Cranch

Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there. - Israelmore Ayivor

Any nation that wishes to enjoy the fruits of development and civilization, must follow the golden rules of this scripture as a national policy and culture. - Sunday Adelaja

Your single not because you are not good enough for one, it's that you're too good for the wrong one. - Chris Burkmenn

If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology. - Douglas Rushkoff

It's incorrigible but inevitable how one gets used to everyone dying. - Marty Rubin

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind. - Seneca

I try to remember everything, every thing, but sometimes I forget something. I don’t even know what it is sometimes, but I know it’s not coming to me, something about him isn’t coming to me and when that happens, when a piece is missing, it makes me crazy. I don’t know what to do with that. - Adam Berlin

I don't really know them, but I know this: they're just like your kids were. Or are. Sweet, trusting, good in ways we adults hardly even remember. We have to look out for them. Not because of the tattoos, or in spite of them, but because they're kids and we're supposed to look out for kids. - Sabrina Vourvoulias

We touch the last reality directly in prayer. - P.T. Forsyth

My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass. - Christopher Hitchens

Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours. - Shannon L. Alder

[A writer] cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it. - Albert Camus

Life is an endless journey. I travel just to unfold the beauty of my life. - Debasish Mridha

Let us awake numb souls.. To cry, to speak and to call. - Bela Anĝelo

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The conception of each star was at the point of no return; of a desperate soul struggling to master the winds! - C. JoyBell C.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. - Themistocles

Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest. - Shannon L. Alder

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg

In accordance with our principles of free enterprise and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to fight to the death for it.

Even if you cover the whole world with darkness, you can never stop the sun from rising. - Debasish Mridha

You see an army running after you, every minute they become more and more you run as much faster as possible, you leave everything behind your back to safe your ass... and after all you are alone silence is with you. - Deyth Banger

You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right. - Santosh Kalwar

Love is a nonexistent myth; a precious commodity cherished by the dying and the weak in spirit - Levi Cheruo Cheptora

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. - Sir Winston Churchill

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are. - Henry Fielding

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. - Graham Greene

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace. - Natalie Lloyd

You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father. - Max Lucado

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others. - Francois de Fenelon

It is better to live with faith than fear. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A goal is important, but what you become to achieve that goal is much more important. - Debasish Mridha

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been. - Sophocles

My truth is mine alone; as yours is yours. For this reason, I hear and see you free of judgement, fear, anger, and resentment. This is my promise to you. This is my gift to me. - E. Patricia Conner

Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn't that they keep lying to you; it's that you keep believing them. - Steve Maraboli

She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again. Ink splattered across the page. And within those scratched words, those small, sharp incisions, an image can be seen and you're left to wonder what, in the end, this all could mean. - Hubert Martin

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. - David Foster Wallace

In school we learn to think alike, but true education is to learn how to think differently. - Debasish Mridha

A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing. - Tom Hodgkinson

Las caras bonitas vienen con todo el sufrimiento que no quieres. - Ana Iherina

You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing. - Raphael Zernoff

the magnitude of our relationship with others depends on the lattitude of our actions...quote for today - oladosu feyikogbon

If you response to every demand, you will be in despair. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset! - Mehmet Murat ildan

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. - Susan Sontag

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be. - Sarah Winman

Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world. - Richelle E. Goodrich

There is a love that binds us allIt's in our blood, it's who we areand it's nested in the branches of this treeand it's rooted in the Earth where we keepall of our stories - Prairie Empire

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk. - Candace Bushnell

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. - Alfred Hitchcock

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart. - Marianne Williamson

Today’s living people are much more important than tomorrow’s yet unborn people! We need to help the people of today before helping the people of tomorrow! We cannot make our plans so as to save the people of distant future by ignoring today’s people! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We will never be more that we have been destined to be! - Sorin Cerin

Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves. - Debasish Mridha

Without desire how is it possible to make a story? - JM Coetzee

Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own. - Herman Melville

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

He turned to me. Call me later?Yes.Promise?I promise, I said.And then he leaned down and kissed me. And this time it wasn’t Romeo kissing Juliet. It was Quinn kissing Delia. And that was even better. - Jennifer Sturman

Death gives people the courage to be honest, sometimes for the first time in their lives. - Elise Maybelle, Timecrest

Visualization prepares you for the experience of success. As you become increasingly optimistic and excited about ideas that motivate you, you open yourself to new ideas, meaningful relationships, and exhilarating opportunities. - Julie Connor

The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where. - James Thurber

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God’s voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism. - Mark Batterson

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something. - René Descartes

OUTDO, v.t. To make an enemy. - Ambrose Bierce

You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl. -- Benjamin East - Jonathan Freedman

Humanity is kind to its respond, aim for distinction, can be measured by its deeds. - Kishore Bansal

Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club. - Ryan Lilly

I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me - Jonny Lang

When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Ich kann freilich nicht sagen, ob es besser werden wird wenn es anders wird; aber so viel kann ich sagen, es muß anders werden, wenn es gut werden soll. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

You get to know what you should have done better regretfully when you watch others take the stage enthusiastically to do what you should have done better - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To be rich, don’t try to earn money. To grow abundance, never forget to cultivate your mind. - Debasish Mridha

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha. - Deepak Chopra

Love is a two-way game, you cannot truly love one who does not love you, and neither can you force them to love you, better look past the hurtful deeds and search for the one who truly loves you and that will be right with you. - Auliq Ice

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience. - Douglas Rushkoff

The next time, you say that you want something, watch your behavior. If you try to cop out of doing what it takes, if you hide behind excuses, if you just don’t want to do what it takes then perhaps reconsider: Is what you think you want actually something that you do in fact want? - Akiroq Brost

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. - Christopher Hampton

We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity. - Sorin Cerin

To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning. - Auliq Ice

There. There you are. You have dropped a marker pin on your body, to reclaim yourself, to remind you where you are: inside yourself. Somewhere. Somewhere in there. - Caitlin Moran

Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth. - Fr James Groenings

You can't go back and I think that's the point of all to grow and grow until you don't want to anymore. - Nikki Rowe

That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a fact. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Serikali mara nyingi hutegemea ujasusi wa ndani na nje kufanya maamuzi mazito na sahihi ya kuendesha nchi. - Enock Maregesi

I think if we stop running towards broken arms, we’d all be just fine. - Dominic Riccitello

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace. - Ken Wilber

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door. - Vironika Tugaleva

It is better to die fighting than to die on your knees. - Emiliano Zapata

What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk. - Larry Geller, Joel Spector, Patricia Romanowski

...trying to use willpower to overcome the apathetic sort of sadness that accompanies depression is like a person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their hands grow back. A fundamental component of the plan is missing and it isn't going to work. - Allie Hyperbole and a Half

God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. - Steve Jobs

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place. - J.K. Rowling

Develop a vision, not a goal. Visions are much more powerful. 98% of what’s going on in your brain is subconscious. Developing a vision requires the use of more of your brain than just developing a thought, which suggests we are tapping into subconscious brain power. - Josh Bezoni

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen. - Enoch Powell

If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. - James Madison

You should always be challenging yourself to see how high you can elevate yourself above the masses. - Auliq-Ice

Time is really the only gift we receive from God that we can give to others. - Homer Hickam

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is. - Margaret Cho

I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned. - Jenim Dibie

There will always be a down but also always an up, your moods depends on wich of the two you pay the most attention to. - Laurins

How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E. - T.K. Naliaka

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games. - Tom Bissell

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

People should be always careful of two persons. One who is totally dedicated to his family especially his wife and others who are completely addicted to the women in life. - Anuj Somany

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more. - Susan Sontag

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn

Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music. - Loren Weisman

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. - Madam Guizot

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money. - Christopher Langan

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. - George Carlin

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver

If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man - Ali ibn Abi Talib

Thinking is human nature and the connection to spiritual dimensions - Vasilios Karpos

Thatcher set ordinary people free, but into a landscape that her other policies had already shaped to suit other, more powerful interests, such as large corporations or Britons with inherited wealth. - Andy Beckett

Never allow your fears to take control of you. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust. - Sun Tzu

Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen

Let's be real. Like I would date someone who didn't go out of their way to be my nemesis." - Shane Carver (The Carver's Magic) - B.L. Brooklyn

Morality is judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, and integrity to stand by it at any price. - Ayn Rand

These were not people you could disagree with. If you disagreed, you were wrong.", Tavistock Institute, as quoted in Relationships and how They Shape Our Capacity to Love By Robert Karen - Juliet Hopkins

This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Forget and forgive your past. Focus on your future, but never forget to act at the present moment. - Debasish Mridha

Bono has commented often that U2 did everything the wrong way around. Other bands started singing about girls and then found the issues in the cosmos and started singing about God; U2 started singing about God and eventually ended up doing a love album. - Steve Stockman

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. - Niccolo Machiavelli

To truly fail in life is to never try. When you fall on your face, it is an opportunity for you to find the road again. It may remind you how hard the road is, but you will never forget its presence once you make contact. - H.L. Stephens

I want people to respect me and not just my position. - Amit Kalantri

Never limit oneself based on the limitations of others. If you can not inspire them - leave them to be inspired by your lead - Tiffany Luard

The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence. - Julian Assange

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due. - Ian Fleming

Henry Ford is quoted as saying. "History is more or less bunk." Now, if he never spoke those words, doesn't that just prove he was right when he didn't say them? - Alex Bosworth

Seeing someone read a book you love is seeing a book recommend a person. - Reddit user coolstoryreddit

One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. - Josh Billings

A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten - Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Don't ever brag about the funds(money) of your parents because they might leave wuth it when their time comes instead strive to make yours and have your personal bragging rights - Chuka Osa-Afiana

I've been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole 'Glitter,'... I'm like, 'It's eight years later, people. Let's move on. - Mariah Carey

When you stand next to beauty and know you’re not, you either feel inferior or you’re thankful for the ones who saw you and loved you anyway. - Donna Lynn Hope

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel brings power and love back into your life. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Kindness is a calling. Caring about people is powerful. Love changes lives. - Rachel Hamilton

There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose. - Jared Matthew Kessler

A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.Real friends are there to visit you not your house! - Jennifer Wilson

Let go of consistency, let go of certainty. Learn to live with the waves of change and uncertainty. - Debasish Mridha

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer? - Steven Wright

It is in the consideration of Love as the director of your behavior, that all the laws of any religion are fulfilled. - Genevieve Gerard

Her veins flowed with liquid poetry. I stole the words from her mouth with my kisses. - John Mark Green

It is so hard to stay afloat in a world that just wants to drown you. - Schuyler Peck

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them. - Harold L. Senkbeil

Sin is man's, last attempt to perfection. - Anthony Liccione

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?' and 'What next?'("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") - Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. - Victor Hugo

For something great,we have to sacrifice something greater - Renju Aravind

Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, diesen nicht das Feld zu räumen. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else, there is the Art of Acceptance. - Rebecca O’Dwyer

Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there. - Vine Deloria Jr.

If you stop dreaming, you're just sleeping.

I guess it’s also not a good thing when you start relating yourself to a late nineteenth century nut bag who shot himself, but hey, you’ve got to relate to something if you ever want to feel relevant. - Molli Fields

People who succeed in business aren't afraid to hear feedback from their customers -- they actually thrive from it. - Adam Smith

Every human being has to build a secret temple in his soul where he can shelter himself and find himself again and again. - Debasish Mridha

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see. - Solange nicole

It’s better to live in hell with the wise than in heaven with the wicked. - Debasish Mridha

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. - Krishnamarti

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. - George Burns

These tears I'm wailing,I spill not without reason.Remove them, my dearest love.Take me to the place I've been dreaming of,where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonelyand they whisper,just very softly,Please be mine, Dearest Love. - Morrissey

Sometimes you’re going to shine like the sun; sometimes you’re going to crumble to pieces. Either way, it’s okay. - Sheila Burke

If you want to live big, then don't let the small things kill you. - Becos Mushenkye

You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. - David Assael

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Positive thinking will ultimately enable you to live a positive life. So think positively. - Debasish Mridha

Work therefore is designed to release all this abundance of wealth hidden inside everything. - Sunday Adelaja

Don't choose someone who's beautiful to the world. Choose someone who makes your world beautiful. - Harry Styles

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. - Susan Rice

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings. - W. Lee Grant

Forgive the past to welcome the future. - Debasish Mridha

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can. - Debasish Mridha

Life is funny, when you are young you want to be older and those that are older wish to be younger. - Karon Waddell

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it. - Joe Hill

When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale. - Debasish Mridha

The act of prayer present an opportunity to communicate and connect to the Supreme being,God. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? - Clifford Stoll

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought. - Theodore Roosevelt

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art. - Leon Trotsky

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration. - Alanis Morissette

All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish things. - Benjamin Brindise

Focus on what's important. Give more attention to your dreams than your fears, to your now than your then, to your expansive truth than other's diminishing lies. - Unknown 21

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it. - Glenn Greenwald

Everything you think today will ultimately reflect in your future. So think carefully, think better. - Debasish Mridha

Wherever you go, never forget to be the messenger and cause of happiness. - Debasish Mridha

We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order. - Seamus Heaney

The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true. - Stacy Keach

Your identity depends on your heart's ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own. - Bharath Mamidoju

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you - Munia Khan

What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

We all do have a vision in life and we all wish to achieve something in life. We all ought to note that vision is there for everyone but, achievement is there for someone! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful? - Pietros Maneos

The whole universe is eager to listen to you; just start the best melody of your precious life. - Debasish Mridha

Flee from those who seek to make you doubt yourself! - Joko Ono

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power. - Benjamin Franklin

I nodded, trying to imagine the very particular sadness of a vanished childhood yogurt now found only in France. It was a very special sort of sadness, individual, and in its inability to induce sympathy, in its tuneless spark, it bypassed poetry and entered science. - Lorrie Moore

The outcome should not drive the action. Your desire to achieve the outcome should. The outcome depends on many variables, most of which are not in your control. Do what you need to do because you want to do it, not because of whether or not the outcome will be achieved. - Murad S. Shah

Oooh you think I'm cute when I'm angry?? Well get ready, cause I'm about to get GORGEOUS! - Hazim Bangwar

Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution. - Dejan Stojanovic

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Oh dear sunday, I want to sleep in your arms and have fun day. - Santosh Kalwar

I love the night! It's not uncommon for me to see the light of a new day before closing my eyes on the old one. - Peggy Toney Horton

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open. - Harper Lee

Love does not claim materialistic possession of any kind, it yields complete freedom. - Santosh Kalwar

Sí, a veces la idea más absurda, la idea más fantástica en apariencia, se apodera de nosotros con tal fuerza que acabamos por creerla realizable. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Whenever you come upon a free supply of high-quality corn, provided unexpectedly right there in the middle of the forest, be careful! The people who put it there are probably sitting nearby in a stand, just waiting to take a shot at you. Keep your eyes and ears open! - James C. Dobson

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. - Stephen Fry

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people. - Antonia Brenner

Feed your creative mind.Feed your joyful, selfless heart.Feed your soul to grow.Feed with books, music, painting or arts,Feed with your special favorite passion you joyfully share near or far apart. - Angelica Hopes

If you try to be everywhere at once, you won't be anywhere at all. - Todd Stocker

As soon as you stop making everyone else responsible for your happiness, the happier you’ll be. - Nina Guilbeau

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave. - Fulton J. Sheen

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. - Stephen King

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck. - Sunday Adelaja

You have to pick yourself up. Or else no one will. - Jessiie Mahadeo

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. - Edward Abbey

The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough! - Shannon L. Alder

Love yourself enough to have a meaningful life. - Millen Livis

Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We're bound by our desire to be right. - Piyush Shrivastav

Remember, today’s truth could be tomorrow’s absurdity. - Debasish Mridha

Don't wait for the world to change, be the change you wish to see in the world. - Ishwar Akash Balloo

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. - bell hooks

We all seek that somewhere to which we belong and that somewhere is surely not here! - Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life. - Michael Bassey Johnson

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. - Cory Doctorow

The sooner, the better; it’s for a man to understand that a woman often can’t and at times doesn’t want to realize her mistake, so it is senseless to expect from her to apologize first ever to him. - Anuj Somany

When you hate something, you chain yourself to it. - Steve Maraboli

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. - Thomas Mann

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

In you is a formidable force that can bring the desired change you want in the world. Stop waiting for the perfect time, go to work now! - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

If you think you would need to change the world, think of your death and the size of your casket before starting to believe in your thoughts or else you are a loser. - Auliq Ice

A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton

It's very difficult to stay in one's heart as it keeps beating - Amit Abraham

we've reached utopia and it sucks - Richard Tomkins

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. - Victor Hugo

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy. - Slicktor Victor Robinson

Humility is never about being small, unseen and unnoticed. Humility is really about expressing all the wonder you are in a way that all people see is the awesomeness and greatness of GOD. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

Love is about as strong, as two people want to make it. - Anthony Liccione

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us. - Daisaku Ikeda

We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance. We forget about who we are in Christ and that God is in control. - Michael Barbarulo

I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting. - Paula Heller Garland

These earthenware bowls are fragile and easily broken, they are only made of a little clay on which fortune has precariously bestowed a shape, and the same could be said of mankind. - José Saramago

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. - Artemus Ward

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe. - Peggy O'Mara

The grace of God transforms the good soul into great soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Which would be worse- to live as a monster, or to die as a free man? - _

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rick Cook

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

I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it" - Oscar Levant

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.""Yes.""It's sort of what we have instead of God.""Some people have God", I said. "Quite a lot.""He never worked very well with me. - Ernest Hemingway

Others can't always define your true identity. They see what they 'want' to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it's good! - Chinonye J. Chidolue

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. - James Gordon

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. - Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality. - Eric Sloane

1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave. - Jessie Burton

Grief helps you come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Guilt helps you make better moral decisions or bring you to apologise for a wrongdoing. In proper doses, these types of negative emotions are necessary and healthy. - Stephen Richards

If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important. - Heinz Kohut

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. - Huston Smith

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is "man" himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Not being you kills the you in you. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none - Jules Renard

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry. - Samuel Johnson

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. - Mahatma Gandhi

Good coaches teach respect for the opposition, love of competition, the value of trying your best, and how to win and lose graciously. - Brooks Clark

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one. - Ryan Lilly

Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.

Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality - Emily Dickinson

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. - Niccolo Machiavelli

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story. - Shawn Lukas

Building a trust to a friend or to anyone else is like sewing a an elegant gown, once betrayed the string or needle breaks and gonna need to replace them.The relationship will go on but it will never have the same treatment. - Bradley B. Dalina

It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body. - Mike Mentzer

You must sit down to speak this language,It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it.For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss - Bill Holm

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. - Sun-Tzu

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man. - Blaise Pascal

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.[Paris Review, interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989] - Max Frisch

I think the very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.— The Duchess Gloriana XII - Leonard Wibberley

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? - Richard Feynman

Life isn’t about being perfect; it’s about improving. It’s not about achieving more, acquiring more, or even about actually being more. It’s about becoming better…better than you were. - Toni Sorenson

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all. - Rollo May

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart. - Ana Monnar

Anyone can love a loving person but give your love to someone who doesn't deserve it - Debasish Mridha

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child. - James Rozoff

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law - Immanuel Kant

In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves. - Barbara Kingsolver

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know. - Don Murray

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia. - H. L. Mencken

When you’re planning the perfect Christmas … the gifts, the lights, the decorations, the paries, the cards, don’t forget the most important item on the list—Christ. - Toni Sorenson

Compromise is only comfortable to the man who is outside the presence of God. - Joe Joe Dawson

We, the human race, are so accustomed to having instead of being. What wastage of the revelations and magic in every moment. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally. - Zelda Fitzgerald

I was born in a hospital. I do not want to die in one. - J.R. Rim

I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly. - Mitch Hedberg

I am yours.Don't give myself back to me. - Jalaluddin Rumi

There is no limit to what you can achieve, if you believe you can. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You are always going to love him, she said " You're stuck with that. - Leslie Connor

Out of the darkness, out of the night,May I find joy and all that is right:Open my eyes, so I'll see the lightThat comes when we have spiritual sight.~, "Infinite Spirit, Abide With Me" (1940's) - Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. - Niels Bohr

A word mother, means a world to me. - Auliq-Ice

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

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

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. - Woody Allen

I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel. - Bill Bryson

We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us. - Chris Matakas

The closest and most precious people in your life are guaranteed to make you feel the entire spectrum of human emotions. - John Wayne Gacy

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end. - Dr. Thomas Dooley

How a man handles himself in defeat is more important than how he handles himself in victory. - T.A. Uner

The SECRET to financial security is not to have more money, but having MORE CONTROL over the money we presently have. - Auliq-Ice

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you. - Shannon L. Alder

Don't blaming your challenge but get up and look it as a bridge to your success. - Bruce Mbanzabugabo

Drink your Desires to taste your self! - AnkitMishra

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. - Joan Crawford

You're all trying to figure out what went wrong inside my head. Fucking idiots. You'll never crack the code that's inside my head. You'll never get into my castle. You'll never even get past the gate. - Brent Runyon

I don't wanna be a Twinkling Star or a Radiant Moon or a Shining Sun. Just to be a Spectacular Sky in their backdrop. - Sajil Chembil

We have no rational evidence that there exits another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume. - Alija Izetbegović

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. - Rachel Carson

A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army. - LordBloodySoul

Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't. - Matthew Syed

There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to tell or not having anyone that cares enough to ask. Perhaps it’s not one person that is to blame, but both. - Donna Lynn Hope

Life is meaningless. It is our actions that add meaning to it. - Avinash Rao

When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries? - Israelmore Ayivor

Be focused and learn what it takes to excel in your calling. Be patient and persistent in your drive to succeed. Be ready to pay the price of success because wealth without sweat is wishful thinking. Never give up on your dreams so you don’t lose what can actually bring you true success. - Sesan Kareem

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie. - Shannon L. Alder

To ‘us’, nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one’s own ‘boundary’ (to not remain as the Self). - Dada Bhagwan

No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution. - Jesse Ball

More often than not- Life moves really fast! It's only for you to pause and breathe! Sadly, none else can do that for you! - Jasleen Kaur Gumber

To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity. - Debasish Mridha

Its weird how i dream things that are worth writing.Its like God is writing them into my mind while i am sleeping and the moment i woke up i know i have to write what i dreamt - Tebogo Phakedi

Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events don't conform to our view of reality, we call them symbols. When they do, we call them facts. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Teaching is the best way to learn. Never stop learning. - Debasish Mridha

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]. - Arlaina Tibensky

Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. - Oscar Wilde

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. - Martin Luther

It's more important to have the right intention behind your love than just having love. - Steven Chopade

If the universe is made of information then, we are moving from a state of profound truth to a state of meaningless gibberish. - R.A.Delmonico

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which they are uttered. - Paul Bourget

If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you. - Nikolas Schreck

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

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. - Charles Baudelaire

Before my diagnosis.I used to be a collection of other people.An Actress,Now I'm finding out who I actually am.It's been a journey, but I have made it. - Tina J. Richardson

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. - Milton Friedman

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. - David Cronenberg

The final aim of any temptation is to bring a person back into the kingdom of darkness. - Sunday Adelaja

Whenever you're having a burden in your heart, share it to those people whom you trust. It'll make you feel better. - Jayson Engay

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything. - Nirav Sanchaniya

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. - Hortense Calisher

Have you ever seen a world fall to its knees? Watch, and learn. - Ob Nixilis (Magic: The Gathering)

Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time. - Mehmet Murat ildan

While these Christians (the majority in a recent poll) are particularly concerned that religious freedoms are being eroded in this country, they also want Judeo-Christians to dominate the culture, - David Kinnaman

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not. - Ana Monnar

Si realmente quieren saber sobre el futuro, no le pregunten a un técnico, a un científico o a un físico. ¡No! No le pregunten a quien escriba en código. No, si quieren saber cómo va a ser la sociedad en 20 años, pregúntenle a la maestra de un jardín de niños. - Clifford Stoll

What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end’s impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously? - Teo Yi Han

The world to a blind man is his touch. The world to a stupid man is his mouth. The world to a great man is his vision. - Paul Harvey

Make sure your Belief system leaves room for you to Be Life! - Stanley Victor Paskavich

In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For me, time does not seem to pass; rather, it surrounds me. Thus I do not feel removed from memories, nor do they lose their intensity. I have keen recollections not because I have a good memory—I simply retrieve them from the ether. When memories have no velocity, they are very much at hand. - Peter Ruperte Lighte

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.Carl JungSwiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) - C.G. Jung

You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You have dreamed too well, O wise archdreamer, for you have drawn dream's gods away from the world of all men's vision to that which is wholly yours,...

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave. - Darnell Lamont Walker