28904 Quotes & Sayings

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can. — Viggo Mortensen

We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation. — Warren Buffett

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. — Peter Straub

To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next. — Barbara Tuchman

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before! — Ayn Rand

She noticed this time that his eyes weren't really gray, but green, and that perhaps they were set too close together. His forehead was awfully high, and when he smiled, his teeth were slightly crooked. And there was something cocky in his manner, but that might just be the salesman in him, she thought. Honora laid these flaws aside as one might overlook a small stain on a beautifully embroidered tablecloth one wanted to buy, only later to discover, when it was on the table and all the guests were seated around it, that the stain had become a beacon, while the beautiful embroidery lay hidden in everybody's laps. — Anita Shreve

Denying the existence of God leads us to preposterous conclusions so that, in the end, the amoral world of the skeptic who simply cannot explain good is worse than the world of the theist who has an explanation for evil. — Ravi Zacharias

Faith does not speak things into existence. It simply sees what is already in existence, though still unseen to those who live by sight alone. — Steve Deneff

'Throne of Glass' readers tend to be passionate, talented, clever, and welcoming - in fact, I'm consistently moved by just how welcoming 'TOG' readers are to new fans. — Sarah J. Maas

Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it. — Elizabeth Blackburn

People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with. — Dolly Parton

I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr. — John Green

The cup was emptied and would never be filled again. — Hermann Hesse

In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders
including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke
could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids. — David Von Drehle

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. — Joe Wurzelbacher