1777x Quotes & Sayings

Living loved, we relax our expectations, our efforts, our strivings, our rules, our spine, our breath, our plans, our job descriptions and checklists; we step off the treadmill of the world and the treadmill of religious performance. We are not the authors of our redemption. — Sarah Bessey

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it. — Adam Duritz

I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar. — Chris Pine

The common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our fish stocks and - I would hope - that if we leave the European Union, we can once more see the ports of Peterborough and Fraserhead and Grimsby flourishing, because we will take back control of our territorial waters. — Michael Gove

Sometimes, and I don't know why, everything I want to say to you presses upon me with great intensity, like a crowd of people all trying to squeeze through a narrow door at once. And I have said nothing to you, less than nothing, for everything I have written recently has been false - not fundamentally, of course, because fundamentally everything is true - but with so much confusion and falseness on the surface that no one could be expected to see through it. — Franz Kafka

It's amazing
my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion". — Jordan Sonnenblick

I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there a while, biding its time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry in the morning. — Sara Gruen

The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed. — Edward Ruscha

I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events. — Steve Pavlina

Treasure is stored in the ruined places.
Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people — Rumi

Tempt fate. See what happens. — Gayle Forman

It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already. — Saffron Burrows

It was too easy, and he'd had enough of doing things the easy way. — Lev Grossman

Don't hate anyone," Beata said quietly. "It's too much work. And it only poisons you. — Danielle Steel

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market. — Hugh Laurie