30125 Quotes & Sayings

There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle. — Joseph Conrad

It is a paradox. The less you need someone's approval, the more you are able to love them. — Susan Jeffers

I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues and just family atmosphere that wasn't right to bring up your kid in a country where there's a dictatorship or a communist type sense, so I incorporate that int music. — Cristian Machado

I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says ... 'Despite - and people will hold these propositions despite events.' — Mario Cuomo

I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it ... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault. — Andrew Luck

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?'
'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for. — Terry Pratchett

One never knows when and why such people start talking; frequently they only open their mouths because they realize they haven't said anything yet, or because they're worried that if they continue to remain silent they will be regarded as insignificant. — Timur Vermes

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. — William Hazlitt

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. — Ellen Goodman

I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall! — John Keats

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night. — Jack Kornfield

Making money is good, but there's no pockets in a shroud. — Terry Pratchett

Maybe it was Andrew's conviction that swayed Matt. Andrew had never given half a damn about this game before and only honestly tried in scattered bursts. That he cared enough to argue now was unexpected and unprecedented. — Nora Sakavic

Their homeopathic letters,
Envelopes full of carefully broken glass
To lodge behind your eyes so you would see — Ted Hughes

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin