425111 Quotes & Sayings

I wish my life were a movie and I could take it into the editing room and totally cut this part out. And some other parts. Some other parts definitely need to be cut. — Susane Colasanti

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. — Algernon Sidney

We are what we are. If you are different, it's because you are special. Don't let anyone tell you differently. — John Inman

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. — Edward P. Morgan

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you. — Kyra Sedgwick

I've finally run out of corridor. There's a life summed up. — Steven Moffat

Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives. — Steve Arterburn

If you had twenty minutes to live, what would you do?" "I don't know," I answered. "But it wouldn't have anything to do with you. — Rick Yancey

When you're focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you're believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless. — Byron Katie

Until such time as one has put to oneself a certain number of questions about an author, and has answered them, be it only to oneself alone and under one's breath, one cannot be sure of having grasped him completely, even though the questions may seem quite foreign to the nature of his writings: What were his religious ideas? How did the spectacle of nature affect him? How did he behave in the matter of women, of money? Was he rich, poor; what was his diet, his daily routine? What was his vice or his weakness? None of the answers to these questions is irrelevant. Even so, the answers tend to be surprising. However brilliant, however wise the work, it seems that the lives of artists can be relied upon to exhibit an extraordinary, incongruous range of turmoil, misery, and stupidity. — Alain De Botton

I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day. — Rod Serling

Grieving is messy and horrible, and it takes too long, and everyone tells you what you need. — Katherine Lampe

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path. — John Dramani Mahama

Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they shew how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level; and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise. — Thomas Reid