1351 South Quotes & Sayings

Then he said, Let me tell you a story from our tradition, a story about King Solomon. King Solomon gave a teaching once about the snake and the bee. The snake, King Solomon said, defends itself by killing. But the bee defends itself by dying. You know how a bee dies after a sting? Like that. It dies to defend. So, each creature has a method that is suitable to its strength. — Teju Cole

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell. — Lucretius

I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna. — Jefferson Mays

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. — Thomas S. Kuhn

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted. — Mary Tyler Moore

Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode. — Fiona Wood

Something larger is happening than just going to heaven. — Bill Vaughan

In Tibet your wealth is determined by how many yaks you own. — Jordan Romero

May your heart knows hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good-to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted. — L. Tom Perry

I cannot be a man, with that iron strength. I am a woman. I will be the fire to consume any iron. — Don McQuinn

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. — Bobby Knight