22391563 Quotes & Sayings

At the end of the world is a great big mountain of granite rock a mile high,' she said. 'And every year, a tiny bird flies all the way to the rock and wipes its beak on it. Well, when the little bird has worn the mountain down to the size of a grain of sand . . . that's the day I'll marry you, Rob Anybody Feegle! — Terry Pratchett

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength. — Jeremiah Denton

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do. — George V. Higgins

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words. — Chanakya

Apple Stores produce more sales per square foot than any other retailer in the United States, including luxury stores like Tiffany. — Neel Doshi

I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted. — Rob Sheffield

We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end. — Ezra Taft Benson

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy. — Frederick C. Beiser

How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it. — Lesslie Newbigin

Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony. — Phil Cousineau

Our population has doubled since the 1960s while wild animal populations have dropped by a third. — Sue Donaldson