1801 Penny Quotes & Sayings

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. — Kahlil Gibran

her life was already so fraught with unpleasantnesses that she'd adopted the strategy of delaying encounters with them as long as possible, even when the delay made it likely that they would be even more unpleasant when she did encounter them. — Jonathan Franzen

I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them. — Martin Luther

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life — Candace Bushnell

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. — Barack Obama

We're here to live. We're here to do, we're here to be. — Lil' Wayne

Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne. — Francis Quarles

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. — River Phoenix

Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step. — Laura Mullen

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind. — Guy Kawasaki

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise. — Mark Twain