20083 02 Quotes & Sayings

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless. — Erica Jong

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity. — Bryant McGill

In the early evening time Dr. Kemp was sitting in his study in the belvedere on the hill overlooking Burdock. It was a pleasant little room, with three windows - north, west, and south - and bookshelves covered with books and scientific publications, and a broad writing-table, and, under the north window, a microscope, glass slips, minute instruments, some cultures, and scattered bottles of reagents. Dr. Kemp's solar lamp was lit, albeit the sky was still bright with the sunset light, and his blinds were up because there was no offence of peering outsiders to require them pulled down. Dr. Kemp was a tall and slender young man, with flaxen hair and a moustache almost white, and the work he was upon would earn him, he hoped, the fellowship of the Royal Society, so highly did he think of it. — H.G.Wells

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you. — Steve Prefontaine

My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them. — Steven Seagal

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about. — Stanley Crouch

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished. — Charles Dickens

After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career. — Marcel Dzama

We are human beings, not human doings. — Rick Warren

If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books. — John Lancaster Spalding

I love tennis, love it! — David Oyelowo

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story. — Marco Rubio

Once upon a time there was a great queen who, having given birth to twin daughters, invited twelve fairies who lived nearby to come and bestow gifts upon them, as was the custom in those days. Indeed, it was a very useful custom, for the power of the fairies generally compensated for the deficiencies of nature. Sometimes, however, they also spoiled what nature had done its best to make perfect, as we shall soon see.

("Green Serpent") — Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. — William Hazlitt