22366 Quotes & Sayings

It's worth all the pain,
Now that I found myself back in your arms again. — James Reid

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour. — Fran Drescher

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. — William Shakespeare

The Yale professor Dan Kahan has done much research showing that our judgments about risks - Does gun control make us safer or put us in danger? - are driven less by a careful weighing of evidence than by our identities, which is why people's views on gun control often correlate with their views on climate change, even though the two issues have no logical connection to each other. Psycho-logic trumps logic. And when Kahan asks people who feel strongly that gun control increases risk, or diminishes it, to imagine conclusive evidence that shows they are wrong, and then asks if they would change their position if that evidence were handed to them, they typically say no. That belief block is holding up a lot of others. Take it out and you risk chaos, so many people refuse to even imagine it. — Philip E. Tetlock

I judge a novel by whether or not it turns my blood into starlight. — Bryan Jones

He certainly must have money, for he has just showered Jane with jewelry. Her engagement ring is a diamond cluster so big that it looks like a plaster on Jane's fat paw. — L.M. Montgomery

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden. — Karen Armstrong

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire. — Bruce Springsteen

If we were to behave half as well as we believe others ought to behave, we might prove ourselves as grand in character as excuses and justifications prevent us from being. — Richelle E. Goodrich