33913 Quotes & Sayings

She was a woman with something to protect. That made her more dangerous than they could ever have suspected. — Seanan McGuire

Headed to the top. The only question as I meet you on my way is if you're coming with me or not. — Iveta Cherneva

It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview. — John Travolta

Every artist was first an amateur. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers. — Robert M. Gates

People say it's easy to make fun of retarded people, but it's not. You really have to explain it to them. — Anthony Jeselnik

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible. — Charlie Watts

He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening. — Lisa Genova

The rest of the Council nodded in agreement, except Terik and Oralie, and - quite surprisingly - Bronte. She only had three supporters, — Shannon Messenger

A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth. — Michael Meade

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade. — Nils-Axel Morner

I guess it means we don't understand everything, and we're not going to. Maybe the whys aren't answered here. Not because there aren't answers, but because we wouldn't understand the answers if we had them. Maybe there's a bigger purpose, a bigger picture that we only contribute a very small piece to. You know, like one of those thousand piece puzzles? There's no way you can tell by looking at one piece of the puzzle what the puzzle is going to look like in the end. And we don't have the picture on the outside of the puzzle box to guide us. Maybe everyone represents a piece of the puzzle. We all fit together to create this experience we call life. None of us can see the part we play or the way it all turns out. Maybe the miracles that we see are just the tip of the iceberg. And maybe we just don't recognize the blessings that come as a result of terrible things. — Amy Harmon

Spiritual regeneration is a change on the inside of a person or nation as a result of coming to Jesus, and a change of value system in his life. — Sunday Adelaja

Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the 17th century, until which time the world was, in the above respects, far less different from the world of any previous epoch of recorded history than it is from the world of today. The modern predicament is the set of problems these changes have bequeathed us. — George Scialabba

I don't think you have a choice but to pull CO2 back that has already made it out, or is about to make it out, because we are not overnight shutting down all the coal plants. — Klaus Lackner