1455 North Quotes & Sayings

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life? — Eric Allen

We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives. — Simon Boylan

I hope you know that you are not alone, and in those hours when you feel that you are, just know there are other people out there - singing the same melodies of wanderlust, climbing over mountains in the dark, and waking in the night to stare at the moon, thinking of this large world and dreaming - just like you — Apex

We cannot rein wild horses with silken braids. — John William Kaye

The hungry kid smiles, as though the cascade of waste paper is a firework display. She squints into the sun to follow them as they fly. — M.R. Carey

That One Man (from The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye)
There is always that one man
who you can't avoid
that one face that becomes the only
representative of
Heaven. — Merrit Malloy

Why did you want children when you knew there was a war?' Mustafa — Asne Seierstad

My greatest skill in life has been to want but little — Henry David Thoreau

What are the important issues there? Khalil asked. What do left and right disagree on? As I began to answer him, as I enumerated the divisive issues, I felt faintly embarrassed at how tawdry they were: abortion, homosexuality, gun control - Khalil looked confused by that last term, and Farouq said des armes. — Teju Cole

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust. — Simon Wiesenthal

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement. — Roger Zelazny

We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being. — Johannes Scotus Eriugena

You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPod and downloaded every piece of classical music that I had access to onto that. — Graeme Base

Bad things are gonna' happen to you, because they happen to us all. And worrying won't stave the really bad things off. Don't make the mistake of comparing your twisted-up insides to other people's blow-dried outsides. Even the most privileged person in this stadium suffers the torments of the damned just going about the business of being human. — Mary Karr