1638 Hawthorne Quotes & Sayings

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously. — Barbara Hershey

And as regards the Soul, although many have judged that its nature could not be easily discovered, and some have even ventured to say that human reason led to the conclusion that it perished with the body, and that the contrary opinion could be held through faith alone; nevertheless, since the Lateran Council, held under Leo X. (in session viii.), condemns these, and expressly enjoins Christian philosophers to refute their arguments, and establish the truth according to their ability, I have ventured to attempt it in this work. 4. — Rene Descartes

Incense. Books. Just weird. — Shaquille O'Neal

My girl.
My Lexie.
My best friend. — Cassie Mae

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once. — Raul Lopez

The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Love cannot burn constantly. — Pierce Brosnan

Peasants had to work harder than foragers to eke out less varied and nutritious food, and they were far more exposed to disease and exploitation. — Yuval Noah Harari

I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good. — Chris LeDoux

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin. — Emile Zola

I have it in my head that when we're born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people's hearts he writes happy and on some people's hearts he writes sad and on some people's hearts he writes crazy and on some people's hearts he writes genius and on some people's hearts he writes angry and on some people's hearts he writes winner and on some people's hearts he writes loser. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God. — Michel De Montaigne

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all. — Josiah Royce

Draw your own moral from this, Sparky. And remember at the center of the cult of personality called stardom there is just a big empty hole. Awards don't matter. Acclaim doesn't matter. Only your craft matters. — John Varley