2670 Quotes & Sayings

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. — Wole Soyinka

Downslopes in the curve show that at various times Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Romania, South Korea, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, and Yugoslavia have pursued nuclear weapons but then thought the better of it - occasionally through the persuasion of an Israeli air strike, but more often by choice. — Steven Pinker

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not. — Martina Navratilova

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw

It does not matter how much we distance ourselves, how far we run - the past always shadows us. — Jayne Castel

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power. — James Rozoff

Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had to have been placed in its orbit centuries before in a trajectory that would make it appear at that special moment of time to announce the birth of a special child. Just as there is divine design in the universe, so each of us has been placed in our own orbits in this life to love, to serve, to help light the world. — Neal A. Maxwell

Realization occurs only when samsara is witnessed, not reacted to. This is moksha. — Devdutt Pattanaik

I want in your life, Elle. All the way in. — Jill Shalvis