16226 Quotes & Sayings

I'm asking you to pay attention in a new way and view it all as being Alive.
With a capital A. — Holly Goldberg Sloan

It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality. — Susanna Kaysen

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources. — Miriam Makeba

You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you wrap yourself in the banner of free speech in order to protest state punishment of views you like and share. — Glenn Greenwald

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology. — Geoffrey Hinton

me. I don't want to have to feel grateful all the time. — Jacqueline Wilson

One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering. — Sylvia Plath

In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arrogance, a countenance full of sincerity and trust, a voice free of vulgarity and impropriety. — Confucius

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government. — Rondal Partridge

As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further. — Marek Belka

One who has hope lives differently. — Pope Benedict XVI

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable. — Michael Musto

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. — Henry Adams

I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices. — Carolyn Wells

Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it.
Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic.
Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy. — Loretta Chase