16426 Quotes & Sayings

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science. — A. J. Jacobs

I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling. — Rocky Marciano

Institutionalization occurs whenever there is a reciprocal typification of habitualized actions by types of actors. Put differently, any such typification is an institution.21 What must be stressed is the reciprocity of institutional typifications and the typicality of not only the actions but also the actors in institutions. The typifications of habitualized actions that constitute institutions are always shared ones. They are available to all the members of the particular social group in question, and the institution itself typifies individual actors as well as individual actions. — Peter L. Berger

It is no great thing to die. Not when one has lived." -Ragnar Volarus — Pierce Brown

A thousand moral paintings I can show
That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
More pregnantly than words. — William Shakespeare

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.'
And now all she can do is watch it falling. — Amy Tan

France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties. — Thomas Jefferson

The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong. — Rick Warren

We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations, promises .. — Ariel Sharon

I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. — Joan Didion

I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him ... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise.
I run to him, without thinking what I am doing. I run to the first friendly face that I have seen since Christmas, and in a moment I am in his arms and he is holding me tightly and kissing my face, my closed eyes, my smiling mouth, kissing me till I am breathless and have to pull away from him. — Philippa Gregory

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage? — May Sarton