10320 Quotes & Sayings

I have learnt that nothing stays the same. Today might seem the same as yesterday but no day ever is; we may want no changes to ever come, but changes do, in time. They cannot be helped; it is how the world turns. — Susan Fletcher

This approach [solving easiest problems first, during the test] works for some people, mostly because anything works for some people. — Barbara Oakley

To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer
knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear ... — Edgar Cayce

Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in the presence of the unspeakable and a guilty gratitude that it is not yet their fate. — Louis Auchincloss

Having the vote is just symbolic. There are still many issues on which women don't have any right and, in many countries, where women are given very very few rights. — Sarah Gavron

Sometimes people do go wrong. There is no judgment needed. Wrong will take a short time or a long time to make the individual aware that something is wrong, and that is the beginning of that person's awakening. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

He took the hat from my mouth. 'Tell me you love me', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway — Alice Sebold

And a while later:
'It is a strange sort of pain.'
Softly.
'To die of yearning for something you'll never experience. — Alessandro Baricco

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating. — Walther Nernst

Both the fragmentation of power and the conflicting government policies are rooted in the political realities of a democratic system that operates by enacting detailed and specific legislation. Such a system tends to give undue political power to small groups that have highly concentrated interests, to give greater weight to obvious, direct, and immediate effects of government action than to possibly more important but concealed, indirect, and delayed effects, to set in motion a process that sacrifices the general interest to serve special interests, rather than the other way around. There is, as it were, an invisible hand in politics that operates in precisely the opposite direction to Adam Smith's invisible hand. Individuals who intend only to promote the general interest are led by the invisible political hand to promote a special interest that they had no intention to promote. — Milton Friedman

Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician. — Graham Taylor