22611 Quotes & Sayings

Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good. — Thomas Merton

In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her. — John O'Hara

The greatest ethical test that we're ever going to face is the treatment of those who are at our mercy. — Lyn White

We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give the phones away to people for nothing. — Martin Cooper

I begged Ana to shut them up, come out as Cuban, play the jail card. But she refused to claim that authority. 'It will mean you, as a Kentucky girl, have nothing valuable to say about Cuba. And Cubans have nothing to say about the rest of the world. — Kelly J. Cogswell

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you. — Harold B. Lee

Kids need to get answers from humans who love them. — Neal Stephenson

One must understand the importance of an endless drive to get information and seek value. — Seth Klarman

I thought suddenly, what is the meaning of all these things? All these bags and bags I've been packing? We could take everything we have with us. We could take every single thing that every single person in the world has ever had. But not of it would mean anything to me. Because no matter how much I took and no no matter how much I had for the rest of my life, I didn't have him anymore. I could have piled everything from here straight to heaven. None of it was him. — Cristina Henriquez

I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces. — Coolio

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature. — Katherine Anne Porter

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me. — Mahatma Gandhi

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections. — Francis Collins

INTOLERANCE (1916) Griffith's design for this film is to juxtapose fours stories from different periods of history that illustrate 'Love's struggle throughout the ages'. — Steven Jay Schneider