13 After Midnight Quotes & Sayings

God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to change
Give me strength to change what I can
And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another. — Marcus Aurelius

Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able to express himself freely in productive activity. He had been driven to produce by need and greed, by a passion for accumulation which in the modern bourgeois age becomes accumulation of capital. His productive activity had always, therefore, been involuntary; it had been "labour. — Robert C. Tucker

Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful. — A. Y. Jackson

For their menstrual cycle, women subconsciously want to punish men. — Daya Kudari

She'd wanted so much for me: the moon and more. But maybe, right now, the moon was enough. — Sarah Dessen

Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors. — Robert Spector

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear? — P.D. James

You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing. — Douglas Coupland

Continually we look at things about us without seeing more than a very little of what is there. — Amy Carmichael

Why is the human need to be in control relevant to a discussion of random patterns? Because if events are random, we are not in control, and if we are in control of events, they are not random, there is therefore a fundamental clash between our need to feel we are in control and our ability to recognize randomness. That clash is one of the principal reasons we misinterpret random events. In fact, inducing people to mistake luck for skills, or pointless actions for control, is one of the easiest enterprises a research psychologist can engage in ask people to control flashing lights by pressing a dummy button, and they will believe they are succeeding even though the lights are flashing at random. Show people a circle of lights that flash at random and tell them that by concentrating they can cause the flashing to move in clockwise direction, and they will astonish themselves with their ability to make it happen. — Leonard Mlodinow

Jimi, Orla's mother, was as tall as Orla, but several times wider. She had all of Orla's grace, too, which was to say that she knocked her hips into every piece of furniture in Blue's room. Every time she did, she said things like "mother lover!" and "fasten it all." They sounded worse than real swear words. — Maggie Stiefvater

Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second. — J.K. Rowling

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round. — Ken Wilber

Sex, unlike justice, should not be seen to be done. — Evelyn Laye