358 Area Quotes & Sayings

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree to, not necessarily that they would agree to. What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines. — John Rawls

I played Joseph in 'Joseph & The Technicolor Dreamcoat,' which was a bit silly because I am a girl. I wanted to be the narrator, but I had fun with it anyway. — Eliza Doolittle

Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God. — Paramahansa Yogananda

She feel these hands tremble, and she could feel Mr. Kidder's excitement. How eager she was to be gone from this room. Her heart was beating in mild revulsion from the man's touch, but Katya forced herself to remain still, politely unresisting. In Mr. Kidder's eyes, which brimmed with moisture, Katya saw such tenderness for her, such desire, or love, she felt that her throat might close, she might begin to cry. Gravely Mr. Kidder lowered his face to hers. Katya held her breath, but he just brushed his lips against her forehead and did not try to kiss her on the mouth. — Joyce Carol Oates

Just like you can't reap a harvest without planting seeds, so you can't get without giving. — Debasish Mridha

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully. — Joanna Scott

I am always going to have problems with the paparazzi. I have had two men outside my house for the last two years, which is frightening at times, but that is my life unfortunately. — David Beckham

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty. — Sugata Mitra

Thus those two beings, so exclusively and touchingly devoted, who had lived so long for each other alone, came to suffer side by side, each through the other, without ever speaking of the matter, without reproaches, each wearing a smile. — Victor Hugo

To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded. — Rachel Cusk

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids. — Suzy Amis

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase. — Pope Paul VI

I am a superficial woman of depth. — Melissa Broder