Quotation Explorer - 'Us'

His heart was like a battered guitar; worn and scuffed from a life spentout on the road, but still capableof bringing forth beautiful music. - John Mark Green

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. - Buddha

If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear. - Gordon Atkinson

An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals. - Steve K. Smy

Dangerously close to having to work for a living. - Rosen Topuzov

True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments. - Sabrina Newby

People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass. - Pino Caruso

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. - Habeeb Akande

Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together. - Charles Frazier

We have seen year after year the passion you have for music, and the way you have always been incredibly passionate fans, even though has not always been the coolest thing to be into. - Hanson

The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The former embraces absolute power, provided it is used to protect and promote the patient's mental health. The latter rejects absolute power, regardless of its aim or use. - Thomas Szasz

We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion. - Bryant McGill

We must be careful more than ever what we let our hearts believe in. - Solange nicole

Don’t set your sights low, just because someone else has a limited view of life’s possibilities. One person's comfort zone may be another person's cage. - Eleanor Brownn

There are things a person does without any reason, without any second thought, maybe they do not hold grudges for long, maybe they just forgive, and there is something strange about that type of person. I admire them. - Shaikh Ashraf

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

Most people spend their entire lives just trying to live life; when all the time we should be trying to find the One Who Holds the Key to True Life (Jesus Christ). - Nicole C. Calhoun

Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one’s nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake! - Anuradha Bhattacharyya

How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it. - Matthew Donnelly

What is truth? Truth is ever-changing law. We both have truths. Are mine the same as yours? (Crucify him! Crucify him!) - Ponctious Pilate

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself. - Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes our whole life is all about, not letting the fire that burns our homes down become the light that guides us home. - Akshay Vasu

word is like a sword; you should be wise when to use it or it'll kill and ruin everything you did in your past, you're doing at this time, and you're gonna do in the future - A. Vaidyanathan

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

Love don't have definition .It was just as it was since the world was created. People are just trying to explain it in vain. - Bikash Bhandari

My girlfriend and I just had make-up sex. We both wore make-up. - Randy Kagan

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. - Sir Thomas Browne

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening. - Randy Pausch

We betray all that is beautiful in us by trying to explain it. - Marty Rubin

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. - Joseph Campbell

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances. - Jay Leno

Work and play is the same thing just with a different perspective. - Debasish Mridha

The mind is time bound however; the subconscious mind is universal consciousness and is timeless. - Debasish Mridha

She persisted when I resisted. And thank God for that. Because the number of storms I needed to go through before appreciating the way the wind whipped through her hair was one to many. Now, I'd move mountains to make her mine. Rain or shine. - J. Raymond

See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. - Bertrand Russell

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. - Herodotus

Even the Us's are Them's. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Don't let anyone fool you. The stars are always shining. And you don't just see them in the dark. The sun is a star, and it provides light for all of us. - Halle Teart

Bekerja dan berkaryalah sebaik mungkin, setulus mungkin, tanpa ada setitik pun arogansi. Lalu biar Allah saja dan para hambaNya menilai semua hal yang paling nyata darimu. - Helvy Tiana Rosa

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. - Teresa Mummert

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

One of the hallmarks of great men is that they never make us conscious of their presence, instead they dwelve into our unconscious state and transform into conscious being! - Ramana Pemmaraju

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed. - Irwin S. Cobb

When you feel like you're at the end, Christ is just beginning. - Todd Stocker

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz

Everything big, once started little. Use self-control to become an excellent person at what you want. Discipline yourself. Work to build excellent habits. Develop excellent skills and abilities. Doing this over time, insures you will grow at what you want for top success. - Mark F. LaMoure

Enamórame día a día y cuando te marches serán tus recuerdos los que me sostendrán hasta mi muerte - Manne Van Necker

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. - Cyril Connolly

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. - John Ruskin

Life teaches us many lessons daily, even from our mishaps, only if we pay attention - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Sin libros, Dios está silencioso, la justicia dormida, las ciencias naturales paradas, la filosofía coja, las letras mudas y todas las cosas envueltas como unas heladas tinieblas".De libros legendis - T. Bartholin

Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue. - Zelda Fitzgerald

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer

Let us express our deepest gratitude to those who sacrificed their lives to give us freedom. Wish you all a very joyful Independence Day! - Debasish Mridha

Feelings are murky, contrived and confusing. And the worst thing about them is no matter how hard you try, you can never sort them. They tangle more and more with thinking. - Saru Singhal

Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always. - honeya

We write "I love you" on the mouth by the kisses that touch it. (On écrit "je t'aime" sur bouche - Par les bisous qui la touchent.) - Charles de Leusse

God through Prophet Hosea is explaining to us reasons for destructions, calamities, failures and devastations among the people of God. That reason is not seen in demonic activities nor is it seen in prevailing economic situations of the land - Sunday Adelaja

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. - Margaret Mitchell

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson. - Amy Carmichael

The Master said, If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment. - Confucius

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. - Mahatma Gandhi

Learn to trust yourself and you will create a meaningful life. - Lynn A. Robinson

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. - Rodney Stark

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. - Anonymous

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! - Henry David Thoreau

Now everyone must do after his kind, be he asp or angle. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have forever repercussions. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. - Erma Bombeck

Trust your imagination, dreams, and hopes. Just never forget to take actions to justify your trust. - Debasish Mridha

Can we just stop pretending that skinny jeans are a good look on anyone? Can we just band together and go for a boot cut, please? Ladies? - Jennifer Garner

Our identity has already been chosen for us; but it is up to us to accept it, or fight and change it. - Afnan Ahmad Mia

T-TrustE-EnthusiasmA-AdjustmentM-Memories - Deepak Chopra

Sometimes in life we must slowly distant ourselves from people and places we feel unconformable. Don't feel bad feel freedom. - Ron Baratono

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. - Jim Morrison

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. - Joyce Maynard

The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world. - Dada Bhagwan

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. - Mae West

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it. - James Brown

The crazy game of pilling stones was also in you and your friends’ marvelous innovation. And how really hard you would hit the phony big guy who you hated like anything. - ChildHood

Genius is born--not paid. - Oscar Wilde

Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside. - Durgesh Satpathy

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things - Xenphon Ephesius

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. - Charles Caleb Colton

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. - Hunter S. Thompson

Let's make justice a process, not an afterthought - Simon Tam

Eventually everyone dies, but death, in various forms and ways, still comes as a shock. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Or they consign you to flames. The flesh sizzles and the bones crackle. be grateful it happens in that order. - Mahendra Jakhar

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power. - Herbert M. Shelton

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn") - Cornell Woolrich

Overwork can cause a break down. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there - Stanley Victor Paskavich

We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives. - Pema Chödrön

In this age, you must be relentlessly remarkable to stay relevant, if not you will be relegated. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

We don't just grow old. We become old when we stop growing. - Sue Ziang

[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels! - Theodor Herzl

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop. - Mark Twain

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. - John Lennon

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at. - Jack Gilbert

Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence. - Alija Izetbegović

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­ - Henri Cartier-Bresson

I don't have wings, but I believe I can fly and touch the sky. - Nurudeen Ushawu

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets. - Marty Rubin

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious. - Stephen Fry

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world. - Josh Groban

It is impossible to say just what I mean! - T. S. Eliot

There is no such thing as phD in swag. Only uni. After learning the principles of swag, one must do their own individual trainibg to increase horizons of their 4 elements of swag. Then comes controlling the swag count that's is released from within. - Batuhan Ibal

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us. - Lilith Saintcrow

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world. - R. D. Laing

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. - Sacha Guitry

Live conscious of every moment and the wonder available in it. - TemitOpe Ibrahim

Confidence thrills men for it means you won’t be fidgety or excessively jealous when the man is in the midst of people especially those of opposite sex. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. - Toni Morrison

dont harden your heart; because of the past, it'll block your sight, of a positive future. - Nikki Rowe

Love and Hate are two of the most used, abused, and misused words of mankind. - Tiffany Winfree

I love the world, just, you know...not the people in it. - Hannah Vandegrift

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. - Woodrow Wilson

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. - Dr. Seuss

So many people don't think seriously about the fact that Personal Responsibility is one of the most essential credentials in National transformation - Sunday Adelaja

It was never darkness for both of them... He was a squid throwing protective ink ... She was a transparent poisonous jelly fish... They both met at the bottom of the ocean but they have both risen together at the higher layers of the Sky. K.K - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K

Life is just a lot of everyday adventures. - Carol Ryrie Brink

You don't die of a broken heart, it only wears you down—just another rainy day. – Grey Daze - Michael Allan Scott

To know what's in my food means to prepare a gun, to know what I drink means to go and put ammo in the gun after cleaning it and finding it and to as last just to push the trigger and look... I'm dead. I'm now just watching my body! - Deyth Banger

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. - Tryon Edwards

Don’t do things to point out your weaknesses, do things to point out your strength. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters. - Camille Paglia

Menjadi penulis itu harus serakah; serakah dalam membaca! - Helvy Tiana Rosa

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

Darling, in this family we don't call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen. - Pansy Schneider-Horst

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can become very, very dangerous. - Christina Dodd

Life is filled with obstacles that confuse the mind. But once you understand it's pattern then you will see why it was there for you in the first place. - Zainab Alsaati

Our readers are curious, creative, and compassionate fairy punks who are citizens of the world. - Quail Bell Magazine

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation. - Dr. Rob Gilbert

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

Just hope. Hope is filled with power. - Debasish Mridha

If we’re missing life it’s probably because we’re expecting it to reveal itself to us, rather than realizing that life is revealed by us looking for it. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Even heaven and hell arise just as we think they should be for we are each beings of consciousness creating our own reality. - Jay Woodman

Discover how wonderful you are. Love who you are, with all your faults. Focus on the unique gifts you bring to the people around you, to the world. Making this a daily practice will shift your life. - Eileen Anglin

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

I may not be perfect for you or the world but guess what I'm not perfect for myself either. I'm dead to you and the world just as I'm dead to myself.-p.b - Primrose Burrell

Pikiran mengendalikan hati manusia - Dian Dermawan

Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world. - Bob Proctor

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am an imperfect man living in an imperfect world, trying to weave through the chaotic interactions of semi-causal events with linear logic, contradictory emotions, dialectic wisdom, and mortal integrity. - Leonard Seet

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

But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. - Raymond Chandler

You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart." - Adieu - Kate Chisman

Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man — in temperament, character, and capacity — and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so. - Frank Chodorov

The most disgusting human trait is bias because it ends of leading to propaganda, hate and violence. - Lori Goodwin

Let's stop judging others, and relieve them of the heavy burden they are carrying on their shoulders because of us. - Saurabh Sharma

You can make it right, just faith the future and work towards it - oladosu feyikogbon

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers

Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it takes years to heal - Rei Anthony Albon

So much to see, so much to do.So much adventure just waiting for you. - Debasish Mridha

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. - Thomas Hardy

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come. - Dallin H. Oaks

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you. - Lauren Zimmerman

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus. - Timothy J. Keller

Refusing dominance over others by using money is a clear sign of wisdom. - Eraldo Banovac

Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused - Terry Pratchett

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. - Will Self

Lets reflect the hopes of the nations under oppression, injustice and brutality. All they see is Unknown suffering Of an empty heart and soul and thus their suffering is unknown. We cannot do everything; but still we can do something. Lend a hand to support the suffering ones. - Auliq Ice

Un paraíso conseguido sin esfuerzo no entusiasma al creyente. - Pío Baroja

The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. - James Baldwin

Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us. - W.H. Auden

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you. - George Orwell

Recently thought of deleting my Facebook account and start using twitter, but realized it's not easy. Facebook has become like the boyfriend I no longer like but scared to dump because I've invested so much time in the relationship. - Manasa Rao Saarloos

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. - Clifford Geertz

One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep. - Pēteris Bitāns

It is not righteousness to outrageA brave man dead, not even though you hate him. - Sophocles

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault. - Sheldon Vanauken

Because of a great love, one is courageous. - Lao Tzu

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall

Don’t waste your life trying to fill up a hollow or a hollow be filled up because it not only makes your life shallow but your conscious hollow. - Amit Abraham

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing. - Carla H. Krueger

Single Ladies Tip: No man is too busy to go after a woman that he really wants, he will make time even if it is 2 minutes. #NoMoreCrumbs - Samantha Gregory

the girl with a moustache" they called me every now and then"It's about time you wax your arms" those who "cared" saidI faced the fears of the dreaded thread on my faceTo succumb every other week to the world's ways - Sanhita Baruah

Porn mainly exists to satisfy the physical needs of men. Unfortunately many young men use porn to get educated about sex. But porn is not romance, lovemaking and about an emotional connection with their girlfriend, wife, or lover. - Dr. Warren Shepell

Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine. - Charlotte Eriksson

Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain. - James Rozoff

Trust the faith everything will be okay. - Nadair Desmar

If we burn ourselves out with drugs or alcohol, we won't have long to go in this business.

Music and image has continued to get more extreme as the world gets more extreme. We are the consequence of the modern decaying civilization. - Marilyn Manson

He has Van Gogh’s ear for music. - Billy Wilder

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company. - Caspar David Friedrich

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate. - Jill Telford

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

The greatest inspiration you can find in this world is "YOU" when you help someone, encourage them, praise them, smile at them or just be kind to them that is a huge Inspiration to you and them!! - Angie karan

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book. - Malcolm Cowley

They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets - Darnell Lamont Walker

Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar. - Israelmore Ayivor

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox. - Jon Stewart

I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular. - Blaise Cendrars

Time is a curious thing. When you have it before you, it's something you take for granted and it moves slowly. Then, as you get older, it accelerates. When I look back, it seems such a long distance travelled, so long ago, so dream-like. - Bernard Sumner

It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints - Gyan Nagpal

It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. - Pat Robertson

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men. - Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

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

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. - Lord Byron

Would you please shut up and sit down! - George Bush

Everyone has their secrets, and there are shadows following us all. - Chrystal Vaughan

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. - Stephen Fry

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect. - William Shakespeare

The least important person in a business is the most important person in a business. - Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

She paused in the doorway, tipping her head to consider Brittany, who only glared. "You're right. I think most girls don't look like the tooth fairy dresses them every day. - Wendy Knight

I'm not tired. I'm just checking my eyelids for holes. It could take a while - Suzanne Wrightt

Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things - Ilyas Kassam

In love; it's only those who trust each other, who can make it until the end. - Auliq Ice

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. - Cyril Connolly

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others. - June Ahern

We must stop relying on our human strength, instead seek grace. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Money serves those who can match it the right way. So it is for us to decide and understand the meaning of Live Rich or Die Rich - Gian Kumar

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. - James Madison

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. - Susan B. Anthony

She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears. - Ali Smith

If you choose to not deal with an issue,then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance. - Susan Del Gatto

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. - Alfred North Whitehead

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done. - George W. Bush

If you trust Google more than your doctor then maybe it's time to switch doctors. - Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

When you truly love someone, you can’t just be their friend. - Berry Quotes

It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult. - Dada Bhagwan

Life is amazing, don't wreck yourself trying to figure it out, cause its just that simple. - Alysha Millet

If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

Most of life’s big steps require a certain muddling through, a trusting that no one really knows the magical formula for the big firsts in life [Cram, Cusi, "‘One Life to Live’ and 14 Beautiful Boys to Kiss," Cafe, January 14, 2015]. - Cusi Cram

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven. - Orson Scott Card

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. - Oswald Chambers

It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it and they would all go to jail! Because Torture is against the law! - Jesse Ventura

Just when I was about to be carried away;And the vision was turning grey. - Siddharth Bhatnagar

Born into a life worth living. - Cher Tushiah

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another. - Bill Murray

My heart had been crush torn and crumble but I'm still here and I'm not broken I'm still fighting my way out - Joyce Guo

You should never turn down the offer of another man’s story,’ the fox persisted, moving off a little further into the trees ahead. ‘Stories are the only thing that separates us from the animals after all. - T.B. McKenzie

Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely. - Chris Kraus

She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness. - George R.R. Martin

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

life weighs heavy upon my shoulders and patience starts wearing thin, it is divine hope and dreams which sustain me, pushing me forth against the wind. - Terry A. O'Neal

Norwegian racism is always a kind of racism that is not prepared to accept it being qualified as such. Because we're the good guys, and racism is what bad people do. - Michael Booth

If your wife puts on ten pounds, love her ten times more.If she puts on a hundred pounds, love her a hundred times more.If she puts on a thousand pounds, love her a thousand times more. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Fictional characters also evolve, the way human being do in real life. - Saumya Kaushik...

I feel like i am parked diagonally in a parallel universe - Anonymous

A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness. - Vann Chow

kabhi itni khushi hui ki apko ronaa aa gaya ho!Jise pyaar me dard hota haiuse pyaar me wo khushi nhi milijo us insaan ko mili jo khushi me bhi royaa hai - Ashutosh Chaudhary

We’re not crazy. We’re just not in the dark anymore. And my goodness, we can see you so clearly now. - Saeed Jones

My continuing passion is to explore strange industries, to acquire new knowledge and ask many questions, to boldly learn something I did not know before. - Boripat Lebel

Success is an outcome of conscious choices pursued consistently and tirelessly. - Vishwas Chavan

The only step that makes the valuable to become valueless is the negative side of your eyes that you use to see it. - Israelmore Ayivor

Friede – wie Freundschaft – setzt Achtung voraus. - Johannes Peter Müller

Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life. - Dejan Stojanovic

Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, my husband and I lived on -- and because of -- hope. Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on. - Dana Reeve

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. - John Ruskin

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. - Kurt Vonnegut

In times of turmoil, void or suffering, closely stays the images mirroring the lived, far seems the unknown to be; pick yourself a lens to see through, your eyes touch the distant mountains and the lived past disappears into ponzo illusions. - Pavitraa Parthasarathy

On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal life span, but that He may not do it in any other way? - Donald Grey Barnhouse

Don't strive for perfection, just do your best. Everything in life is ever revolving to be perfect. - Ann Marie Frohoff

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. - Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!"Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part of that lake."Ayame: "As long as we spend time together."Yuki: "On second thought, go drown yourself. - Natsuki Takaya

K-I-N-G Jesus is busy in every moment! (Kind hearted -Integrous - Noble - Gracious)" ~ © gfp '42™ - Gary Patton

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed - Bob Dylan

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world - Gustave Flaubert

God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge. - Jason Gray

Good QUOTES have been often used by the bad people better than the others, but to their own best advantage only. - Anuj Somany

There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious. - Bono

You can't suddenly know something just by assembling a committee of words! That's it! I'll assemble your comittee! - Hubert J, Farnsworth

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key! - Anaïs Nin

Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction - William James

I do not support vengeance. I support justice. They are not one in the same. - Mark Andrew Poe

When you let Soul drive the bus, life flows more effortlessly. -- From the book, Doing a 360, page 8 - Nancy Ash

it's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return. - Turcois Ominek

Do you drink?""Of course,I just said I was a writer. - Stephen King

Sometimes you just have to tell your fear to kiss your ass. - Junnita Jackson

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air. - Naomi Wolf

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can’t hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then flutter away. The butterfly isn’t me. I can step away from it, and watch it, learn from it, enjoy it, without needing to absorb it into my identity. - Julie Farrell

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity. - Phyllis Rose

May the Spirit lead us to walk on sacred ground. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Animals in children’s literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls. - Linda Bender

Love lives in the humblest of places. It doesn't matter how big your house is, how nice your car is, how big your bank vault is...it only matters how much your heart can hold. - Kate McGahan

When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can't make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time. - April Mae Monterrosa

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. - George H.W. Bush

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. - Jane Addams

A person's a person, no matter how small. - Dr. Seuss

Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the part that loves. If you’re going to spend your life fixing broken hearts, then learn about both. You can’t just fix one with no concern for the other. - Charles Martin

Let us measure time not by moments but by memories. - Debasish Mridha

When I became insane, the music that calms me down… - Maria Herliana

We each joked to close friends that the secret to saving a relationship is for one person to become terminally ill. Conversely, we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love—to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful. - Paul Kalanithi

I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am a poem. I am the soil and a gem. I am a stargate and a voyage. I am the ocean and your soul. - Oksana Rus

That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, 'when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give 'em either one or the other, but not both. It just messes up their brains. - K.W. Jeter

Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success. - Savas Dimopoulos

Don't wait for what you don't have. Use what you have, begin now and what you don't even expect will come alongside with excess of what you expect. Go, make it happen. - Israelmore Ayivor

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. - Annie Lennox

Rich people is people who only cares for themselves, and their money but, poor people doesn't care how much money they have because they have a big heart - Emanuelle Rivet

Be vibrant, vital, vivacious, vigorous, and victorious with adventure and love. - Debasish Mridha

Love? Love…what is love? These emotions… are to confusing This pain… won't go away That kiss you gave me… That's what stole me away~omg i wrote this 4 years ago... XPi found it in a old post i made on a different site - Leticia Sanchez me

[We're] going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see. - Viola Gregg Liuzzo

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets. - Lucretius

You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgmentand shining in its endless beauty. - Paul Ferrini

Our challenges don't define us, our actions do, - Michael J. Fox

The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible. - John Winterson Richards

It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again. - Christina Engela

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. - Lois McMaster Bujold

This is God's beauty!The Elegant nature of Esther,The Meek nature of Moses,The Pius nature of Paul,The Passionate nature of Peter,The Just nature of Jesus and thenThe wise nature of you! - Israelmore Ayivor

Until you learn how to confidently say NO to so many things, you shall always say YES to so many things. The real summary of a regretful life is a life that failed to balance YES and NO. Yes! A life that failed to recognize when to courageously say NO and when to confidently say YES! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Must have a lot of male customers to let her dress like that. Nice view. - Dianne Harman Cornered Coyote

When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out? - Russ Scalzo

The most magnanimous gift one can give one's neighbors is to leave them alone. - Marty Rubin

I don’t care about losing people who don’t wanna be in my life anymore. I’ve lost people who meant the world to me and I’m still doing just fine. - Karl May

love is no definition .it has no conclusion . - litymunshi

Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question. - Joss Whedon

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. - Jane Austen

Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality. - Kitarō Nishida

Every relation need adjustments to survive, but those dies where one compromise.. - Debolina Bhawal

Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.

God gave you purpose, the devil can’t stop it, so the person in the mirror must choose success or failure. Choose success! - DeWayne Owens

Very little effort is needed to create a prosperous life. Focus on positivity, prosperity, and love. - Debasish Mridha

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo Buonarroti

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements. - John F. Baddeley

Believe in yourself and everything will change - Sarah alhussinan

Some people are just quitters, man they just give up, and the rest of us are dreamers without any luck. - Danny Aspinall

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever. - Jill Telford

On se réconcilie avec un ennemi qui nous est inférieur pour les qualités du coeur ou de l'esprit ; on ne pardonne jamais à celui qui nous surpasse par l'âme et le génie. - François-René de Chateaubriand

As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water, until he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing, but he finds Allah with him, Who will pay him his due (Hell). And Allah is Swift in taking account. - Anonymous

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! - Neal A. Maxwell

With great love comes occasions of pain. You can't skip the pain; without it, you would never know what a precious thing love is. You wouldn't know to hang onto it. You wouldn't know to fight for it. You embrace the pain because the love makes it all worthwhile. - Theresa Smith

It's just that the chaos has changed shape. The giraffe and the bear have traded hats, and the bear's switched scarves with the zebra. - Haruki Murakami

The purpose of life is not just limited to eat, drink, sleep, or having kids.The ultimate purpose is to find the Almighty within. - Aakash Sharma

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex) - Cicero

Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off - Gerard Way

Consider your body and mind as a machine that runs a program; then be aware of who is writing the program you are running. - Russell Eric Dobda

These is nothing divine about deprecating your gifts and talents or diminishing their worth in any way. Shining is sharing an abundance with us all. - Tama Kieves

Keep focusing on God and all things will work out. - Ray S. Jones

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'. - Sun Tzu

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. - Mark Twain

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists. - Pawan Mishra

We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar. - James E. Faust

The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious. - Stefan Molyneux

There are two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers came to know eat better, but the givers sleep better. So I want to be both. Because I want to eat and sleep both better for good health. - Prachi Parichita

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place. - Augustine of Hippo

You're the certainty of my uncertainty. Your significance defines the love and connection I have for you and I wanna thank you because you help me grow to become my full self and contribute meaningfully to this world we're both in. - Jayson Engay

Ketika Tuhan menyentuh hati kita, Ia akan benar-benar menyentuh bagian terdalam hati kita, jauh dari apa yang pernah tersentuh oleh manusia. - Bennyvck

I was the solitary plovera pencil for a wing-boneFrom the secret notesI must tiltupon the pressureexecute and adjust In us sea-air rhythm"We live by the urgent waveof the verse - Lorine Niedecker

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say. - Mark Polish

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives. - Willard Van Orman Quine

Life presents many challenges...Temptation is one of them.. And free will govern us all. We have the power to choose. - Lee Monroe

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one can take an empty space and create something beautiful; It is not just Art, It's "magic". - Andrea L'Artiste

Don't just bring people to church; bring them to Christ. Churches are filled with church goers but not Christ followers. - Ramon M. Torres

...When a choice will make a real difference in our lives—obvious or not—and when we are living in tune with the Spirit and seeking his guidance, we can be sure we will receive the guidance we need to attain our goal. - Dallin H. Oaks

Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where it use to flow. There is a sense of clarity in these places, a reflection of who I am or atleast who I have been. Broken, yet still incredibly beautiful. - Nikki Rowe

Life is like a camera... Focus on what's important capture the good times and develop from the negative. - Pravinee Hurbungs

Believers if opt to practice Favoritism will fail miserably to build a relationship of Mutual Trust & True Respect for themselves. - Santosh Thankachan

It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. - George Gissing

In suffering, we trust the Saviour to be our strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita

It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Ever since we’d found Wilson, his cousin’s calmness bothered me. I realized now I felt less unease with angry outbursts from grieving relatives, than I had with the slow, ticking time bomb of the quiet and collected.--Prepped for Kill, Marjorie Gardens Mystery Book 2 - A.E.H. Veenman

There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics. - Peter J. Boettke

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

If there is progress anywhere it is because there has been people who worked for it not just prayed for it. - Sunday Adelaja

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride. - Raheel Farooq

Don’t waste a minute fretting over the infinite destructive possibilities of The Singularity. Think of all the fun we’re going to have along the way! It will all be one glorious adventure, start to finish! - Richard Long

Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon. - Toni Morrison

So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto's Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all. - Guillermo del Toro

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony. - John Taylor Gatto

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough - Richard M DeVos

If you celebrate Independence Day on just one day of the year, it only goes on to show that you are not truly Free…. Learn to celebrate your Freedom every day! - RVM

The dream is free - to live it requires HUSTLE. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, _jugum_, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language -- a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it. - Ambrose Bierce

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. - Bill Watterson

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

not responding verbally isn't necessarily being passive. we are communicating on many levels simultaneously - waking life

Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health and harmony. - F. David Peat

Karma can be seen as a curse or a gift a curse because it keeps us attached to this world and a gift because it creates links with our loved ones it’s like a chain that binds us all together. - Abdullah Fort

God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence. - Swami Dhyan Giten

When you become worthy of people’s worship, you will be able to attain moksha (liberation), you cannot go to moksha just like that. Reproach (criticism) by people is the cause of a life in the lower realms. - Dada Bhagwan

Music is the eternal language of love for every living species. - Debasish Mridha

If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'. - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

I want to be famous but unknown! - Edgar Degas

The reason why we are all different is to allow us to; to keep learning about each other so we can keep working with each other and live with one another. - Dee Dee Artner

If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too! - Mehmet Murat ildan

If you're feeling discouraged and defeated—don't quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play—even in the midst of incredible darkness—can and will turn the tide of your own battles. - Seth Adam Smith

You don’t waste time on suspecting or second guessing when you confront. - Sunday Adelaja

When the deputies asked me if I needed anything, I told them I could use a cigarette. I don't smoke but it seemed like the thing someone handcuffed in the back seat of a police car should say. - Becky Crabtree

Some are afraid of being a mess, feared by the unknown and are horrified by an unplanned future; than, there is some of us who thrive through discovery , excited by unknown territories and intrigued by a future of mystery. How you tell these people apart; one is a thinker, thy other a feeler. - Nikki Rowe

Sometimes I look at you and I just can't believe you're mine - James Patterson

Just start at the beginning, you say? And what beginning might that be? I've come to the conclusion all starts are false ones. Tap the fragile shell of any beginning and you'll find another nested inside. - Christina Sunley

Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors - Alejandra Pizarnik

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy. - Friedrich Nietzsche

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. - Liz Armbruster

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase -- that's what wild geese are for. - Anonymous

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. - George Aiken

We are living in a generation where people ‘in love’ are free to touch each other’s private parts but are not allowed to touch each other’s phones because they are private. - Robert Mugabe

According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people. - A.E. Samaan

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

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it andpush it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before,push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm ofmagic. - Tom Robbins

You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action. - Randa Abdel-Fattah

The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe. - Gina Charles

There are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world. - Israelmore Ayivor

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. - Marcel Proust

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth. - Lady Gaga

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. - Jasper Johns

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me. - C.S. Lewis

The principle of God is every human created for the help of other human to survive the journey of life but the principle of God gonna wrong way, as now human are the main cause of destruction of other human. - Arbab Jehangir

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. - Samuel Beckett

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. - Aldous Huxley

Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again. - Pawan Mishra

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous. - Jean Baudrillard

As a woman still,without the right kind of mouth,my tongue’s of no use. - Kristen Henderson

The key challenge facing us today is to successfully transmit into daily and everyday lifestyle the principle of truth and honesty. - Sunday Adelaja

How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego. - Amanda Torroni

Music keeps the soul alive. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. - Voltaire

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men. - Hasidic Saying

Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with. - George Carlin

I came to the realization that there were certain public issues that were most usefully dealt with within some sort of framework of at least my private beliefs, if not my private life. - Anna Quindlen

Many things that I am experiencing I already remember. - Karl Kraus

When the door of opportunity of your storehouse opens for you, let faith and hope enter first. When your faith leads the way, you will locate the source of your hidden treasures. - Israelmore Ayivor

El hábito de entrar en mí mismo hizo que perdiera al fin el sentimiento y casi el recuerdo de mis males, aprendí así por mi propia existencia que la fuente de la verdadera felicidad está en nosotros y que no depende de los hombres el hacer realmente miserable a quien sabe querer ser feliz. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

RAPACITY, n. Providence without industry. The thrift of power. - Ambrose Bierce

I dont care who the audience is looking at just as long as they're looking at the stage.

If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host? - Venita Ellick

Just a child is free to wander in one's father's garden, discovering little or big things; it is left to the seeker to grow unto the Nature of the Absolute. - Fakeer Ishavardas

God’s justice in the one, and his goodness in the other, is exercised for evermore, as the everlasting subjects of his reward and punishment. - Sir Walter Raleigh.

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? - Arlo Guthrie

If someone called me fat, that affects me way more than someone calling me a f----t. I think just because I've accepted that, if someone calls me a f----t, it's like, I am gay and I'm proud to be gay so there's no issues there. If something calls you fat, that's something I want to change. - Sam Smith

Christopher Columbus - Louisa May Alcott

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they. - Gertrude Bell

It 's the time of year when Canadians mate. - Craig Ferguson

Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

You are infinitely capable. You don't live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire universe experiencing itself through the eyes of one human. And thus, you are free to create the reality you choose. - Michael Sanders

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose. - G. K. Chesterton

Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds. - Munia Khan

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots. - Sally Jo Martine

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire

Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind. - Shannon L. Alder

A man limits his abilities himself according to his created interest, and then he pays very little attention to unliked things. Understand that man can become whatever he wants to be, just Interest and Want play the role. - Faisal Nawaz Maitlo

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.

I shall write peace upon your wings,and you shall fly around the worldso that children will no longer haveto die this way. - Teshima Yusuke 手島悠介

Act, not for results, just for action.Give, not for appreciation, just to help.Be kind, not for something in return, just to love. - Debasish Mridha

Do not postpone what's important to you simply because others don't share your priorities - Hemal Jhaveri

Some times it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life. - Anoymous Authors

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

Doubt births negative confessions; it hinders God’s promises and it spurs thedevil into action! Don’t give the devil any propelling force against your life!God is able in all situations; only when you believe! - Ayobola Olusegun-Emmanuel

I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results. - Kia Carrington-Russell

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously. - John R.W. Stott

One act of kindness teaches more about the love of Jesus than the words I speak. - Hector Perez

A fundamental shift of our perceptions and consciousness are necessary for any great improvements for mankind. - Debasish Mridha

I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit. - Leon Festinger

Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles. - Barbara Hall

The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the people who are using your energy in an unsatisfying way. You have to take that risk of being friendless to make room in your life for others who will be your new best friends - Maggie Stiefvater

Pray for "all men." We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity. - E.M.Bounds

In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside. - Smith Wigglesworth

I would put it this way. There are objects for which we have found uses. We use them, but almost certainly not the way the visitors use them. I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes. - Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Antonina W. Bouis (Translator)

If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet. - Todd McFarlane

You cannot have a beautiful life if you always focus on ugliness in others. - Debasish Mridha

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react. - Seth Adam Smith

Those who do not continuously seek knowledge are content to settle for mediocrity. - Keith Allan Moore

Family is your most reliable source of support in any situation because love from your family is unconditional. - Auliq Ice

a relationship without trust is like a car without gas..you can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere... - Michael J Herbert

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years. - George Burns

Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true. - Morrissey

- Why is depression the blues and not the grays? - Because racer!-Jarod Kintz and - Stefan D

They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over. - Ellen DeGeneres

When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And…that’s ridiculous, but so am I. - Tegan Quin

The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL. - Bob Proctor

You Never Have To Worry About Anything, If You Just Tell The Truth. - Chris Mentillo

i had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry - Megan Boyle

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on. - William Shakespeare

I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books. - Anonymous

Thanks To Those People Who Give A Taste Of Right Ways. - Zia Mustafa

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. - Henry Ford

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes. - Norman Douglas

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. - Sidney Sheldon

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

... which would enable him to prolong for the time being, and to renew for one day more the disappointment, the torturing deception that must always come to him with the vain presence of this woman, whom he might approach, yet never dared embrace. - Marcel Proust

The only paradise is paradise lost. - Marcel Proust

Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight. - Eduardo Galeano

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. - John Updike

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on. - Alan Shepard

An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronising wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them. - Glen Cook

The better you become as each day goes by, the more you heap dust upon you past until you completely bury it. No matter how obnoxious it was - Constance Chuks Friday

Be jealous of fellow men, but of those men who are pious - your fellow men who are honest, sincere and loyal with their friends, family and teachings of their Creator. See everyone as equal and wish no harm on anyone - who are we to judge each other when we are being judged by our Creator. - Mizan Chaudhury

It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Romanticism in loneliness is a true romanticism; but romanticism when others are around is suspicious because you may be pretending! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Before and after you do your best, know it that you must rely on God. Your best - no matter how great - is nothing if you minus God from the equation. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I think you’re just as emotionally unavailable as I am. I avoid men because I’m afraid I’ll lose my heart, and you go from girl to girl to keep from giving yours away. - Ann Everett

touchKindness never use harsh words its touch warmth the needy person. - Kishore Bansal

File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting. - Antony Johnston

Think of something, Oh yes! Think of something. Your life must not be in retardation so think of something! Think of growth for that is the whole essence of life! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I breathe just to be near you... - Fisher Amelie

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun. - Theodore Roosevelt

Stop thinking about the easy way out,There's no need to go and blow the candle outBecause you're not done,You're far too young. - Nickelback band

Grandir… Cette maladie infantile faisait bien plus de ravages que toutes les autres réunies. Il n’y avait pas de traitements connus pour la soigner. Et lorsqu’elle frappait l’adulte, elle était bien plus dangereuse encore. On l’appelait vieillir et, dans sa forme la plus grave, mourir. - René Manzor

A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal. - Henry Miller

Let's hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people. - Mansi Soni

With automobile accidents, mechanical failure is seldom the cause; and most often, operator error. I find the same to be true with corporate failings…. the people are rarely the issue… the shortcoming is most often found in the leadership. - Steve Maraboli

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey; - John Hope Franklin

...the [mental] organization of grammar [is] a case where complexity in the mind is not caused by learning; learning is caused by complexity in the mind. - Steven Pinker

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation. - Aldous Huxley

If I let her in I'm doomed. It's like inviting a vampire into your house. Once you've invite them in, that's it, you're good as dead! - Janet Evanovich

I can’t chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you’re a lot better-looking. - Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley

Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon. - Langston Hughes

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. - Epicurus

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

I wish that people would stop destroying other people just because they were once destroyed. - Karen Salmansohn

Friendship, just like a young green plant, needs to be nurtured. - Eraldo Banovac

I believe having a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially - Donna Tartt

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." . "Just try to make sure that you step in the right direction. - Lao Tzu

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. - Duke Ellington

Exercise is medicine. Literally. Just like a pill, it reliably changes brain function by altering the activity of key brain chemicals and hormones.

Love is a precious gift which cost nothing. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I will only add, God bless you. - Jane Austen

High thoughts must have high language. - Aristophanes

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations and social standing, never can bring about a reform. - Susan B. Anthony

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him. - D.L. Moody

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. - Judith Martin

He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity. - The Talmud

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God. - Suzy Kassem

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful. - Justina Chen

Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing...I'm just following these people around and taking notes. - P. Anastasia

Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable tin ear makes it impossible to hear any signs of empathy or capture the vibrant qualities of ‘sharing’. ("Only needed a light ") - Erik Pevernagie

When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues. - Jodi Picoult

All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.

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

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. - Sir Arthur Helps

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive. - Samuel R. Delany

The art of betrayal has not taught me to be bitter, but to not so easily misplace trust. - VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis

Another day another life Passes by just like mine It's not complicated Another mind Another soul Another body to grow old It's not complicated - Ed Sheeran

Prophecy is True and Sacred and should never be mishandled by people who have no business speaking about Sacred Things in GOD'S Name. - Errol Anthony Smythe.

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise. - Margherita Hack

Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along and knock down all the obstacles we put in your way. People who realize free will is a gift, you'll never know how to use until you fight for it. - the adjustment bureau

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgement when we have not. - John Lubbock

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet. - Louis C. K.

We cannot keep on blaming the past leaders about the present circumstances. We need to be mindful that if we do nothing to improve the present circumstances, our children will also blame us in the future. - Gugu Mona

When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here! - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go. - Henri J.M. Nouwen

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity. - Sydney Biddle Barrows

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. - George Bernard Shaw

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body - Elizabeth Stone

We had to think differently to do what must be done. - Lailah Gifty Akita

You just can’t take for granted just how absolutely predatory the technology space is. - Sean Silcoff

The innocent-sounding words Yes, it’s close enough to walk can easily lure the unsuspecting tourist into an exhausting day-long climb, requiring supplemental oxygen, crampons, and a pickax. - Maryrose Wood (The Hidden Gallery)

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. - Alvin Toffler

An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice. - Natalya Vorobyova

To fill your heart with love, just love an innocent animal. - Debasish Mridha

Relationships are never complicated. You’re either together or you’re not. If someone says it’s complicated, it really just means someone’s killing time until something better comes along. - Teresa Lo

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful. - Otto von Bismarck

Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience. - Arnošt Lustig

Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale. - Amit Kalantri

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,and silently steal away. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. - Rita Schiano

I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence. - Denton Cooley

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. - Edward Abbey

Britain isn't a world power any more. Its just like a zombie in that regard; it doesn't know when it's dead - Samson from No Boundaries. - Paul Xavier Jones

Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery - Cristina Istrati

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. - Rita Rudner

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. - Evelyn Waugh

A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with his story, a knowledge shortcut. - Susan J. McIntire

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out. - Mark Zuckerberg

[Jesus] plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn't say "you *might* be my witnesses," or "you *could* be my witnesses," or even "you *should* be my witnesses." He said "you *will* be my witnesses. - Charles R. Swindoll

Love and honor the world around you, and you experience life in its fullest. There is no Other. There is simply us. The all of us, the whole of us. The mankind of us. Anything else is a lie. - Cassandra Blizzard

for to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy. - Salman Rushdie

Seems like the world is spinning smooth without a bump or squeak except when love comes in. Then the whole machine just quits like a loud load of wash on imbalance--the buzzer singing to high heave, the danger light flashing. - Sandra Cisneros

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet. - George W. Bush

In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street 'experts' were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea - James J. Houts

Don't fall for the ones who say, I am always yours. They are liars, unfortunately humans too - Rushabh Patel

Sometimes, the scariest thing you will ever have to do is trust God to fight the battles you can no longer fight. - Shannon L. Alder

A man with a good story is practically a king. - José Eduardo Agualusa

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

When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done. - Amit Kalantri

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

All of us at some time will have someone to forgive for something they did or failed to do. And all of us at some time will need forgiveness for something we did or failed to do. - Laurie Buchanan, PhD

Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave. - Kirk Chisholm

And it's his illusions about whatconstitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed - Luke Rhinehart