28mantras Quotes & Sayings

I mean, personally, I would have had no problem surviving. Come on, how hard is it to swim? — Zach Braff

You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself. — Sathya Sai Baba

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams. — Anne Perry

The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him. — Georg Brandes

The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing. — Jaclyn Moriarty

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves. — Herta Muller

It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal Son. — G.K. Chesterton

Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty, and turn his vision from the low objects which surround him. Let him gaze on that brilliant light, set like an eternal lamp to illumine the universe; let the earth appear to him a point in comparison with the vast circle described by the sun; and let him wonder at the fact that this vast circle is itself but a very fine point in comparison with that described by the stars in their revolution round the firmament. But if our view be arrested there, let our imagination pass beyond; it will sooner exhaust the power of conception than nature that of supplying material for conception. The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. In short it is the greatest sensible mark of the almighty power of God, that imagination loses itself in that thought. — Blaise Pascal

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people ... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being. — Alan Cooper

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money. — Juliet Stevenson

The past is a finite resource. — Douglas Coupland

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. — Rita Dove