1815 Novel Quotes & Sayings

The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems. — Aaron T. Beck

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen. — Robert Charles Wilson

To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her... Respect must show in action. — Kathryn Pyne Addelson

He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am slowly learning to pluck the flowers of my past from the weeds, and place them in the window where I can see them first. ~Call Me Tuesday — Leigh Byrne

Playing my drums is therapy. — Travis Barker

When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man. — Walt Whitman

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology ... — Taslima Nasrin

if a man always says no, he shall never say yes — Thien Nguyen

I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I dig around with a magnifying glass looking for flaws in very person I date. There's always a flaw to exploit, and I'll find it so I never have to get too close. — Rachel Machacek

Be doers of the word, and not merely hearers. (James 1:22 NRSV) — John Ortberg

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness. — Winston Churchill

My heart is bigger than my fist. — Jill Telford