39000 Quotes & Sayings

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. — William Safire

I used to think the best part of me died with Les, but the best part of me is standing right here in front of me. — Colleen Hoover

What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy. — Suzanne Collins

We laughed and talked like a normal couple. No demons, no war. — Karen Swart

But, there's like a hole world out there! Filled with mystery and awe and sorrow and happiness. — Colin Meloy

In the end, writing is not a full step toward self-healing, just a tiny, very tentative move in that direction. — Haruki Murakami

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night — Harper Lee

Imagine if we were capable of a form of empathy that lets us know one another by savoring the aura we leave on the things we have touched. We would go to a dump to get drunk on one another's souls. — Robin Nagle

Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us. — Seneca.

Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe. — Masao Abe