11150 Quotes & Sayings

Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.
— Neil Postman

Got some more customers for ya," said Camden, taking off his baseball cap to bend the brim, and then putting it back on again.
"Wait, she deals drugs too?" asked Brad. I couldn't tell if he was serious or not. Apparently, neither could the student teacher passing by us in the hallway; she whipped her head around to stare suspiciously for a moment before either deciding that we were harmless or deciding to stroll on over to Principal Davis's office in an exceedingly casual manner. — Cherry Cheva

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath. — Thomas A Kempis

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard ... I believe it is work we are called to do — Gene Robinson

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. — James Truslow Adams

In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves. — Frederick Lenz

These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis. — Idries Shah

I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before. — Gerard Depardieu

The reason why many ministers go astray is that they underestimate what they were called to do — Sunday Adelaja

Your main contribution is spray painting your nickname on other people's things. And my cousin, who's a 'gangster', he's like, 'No, Tash, you don't understand; you throw a fat piece up there, that piece is yours.' I'm like, 'No one thinks you own Costco.' — Natasha Leggero

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. — Anne Tyler