1720 Smart Quotes & Sayings

With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave. — Sakya Pandita

Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed
and embittered if they fall short- to try to do good with people rather than to them- this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the closeness of friendships. — Randolph Bourne

Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith. — Debra Dean

When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously. — Chelsea Clinton

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific. — Jerry A. Coyne

Family is what really runs through my head. I'm usually bombarded with tons of phone calls, but I'm usually bombarded with love as well. — Wade Bowen

I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy. — Pearl S. Buck

It is true that the environment does have an influence but what has much greater effect on the artist is love or hatred.He uses his setting to express these things. — Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

If we couldn't carry our dead inside us, we would be empty. — Joey Comeau

I was convinced by now that his feelings for Laoghaire were only those of a chivalrous friendship, but I didn't know what he might do if he knew that his uncle had seduced the girl and got her with child. — Diana Gabaldon

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. — Moby

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past. — Ron Chernow