35216 Quotes & Sayings

And hope is but a dream of those that wake. — Matthew Prior

In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty.5 — Yuval Noah Harari

Not all of us need to spend every second of our lives trying to get somewhere other than where we are. Not all of us have to grab the brass ring on the carousel. Some of us just like to go around and enjoy the ride. — Barbara Freethy

It seems that only God can know the truth; it is to Him alone we
must appeal, and from Him alone expect mercy. — Leo Tolstoy

We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will. — Charlie Munger

Sometimes, humans were more monstrous than anything else. — Jennifer Estep

The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light. — Stephen Spender

Woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit. — Emma Goldman

Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy. — Michael R. Burch

Same result, only I'd be steam-cooked instead of roasted. — Jim Butcher

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses! — Trina Paulus

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home. — Liu Wen

Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. — Lucan

You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed. — Norman Vincent Peale