4280 Quotes & Sayings

Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues. — H.W. Brands

Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten. — Daniel Goleman

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs. — John Guare

If supernatural aspect of the assignment is lost then the natural aspect manifests — Sunday Adelaja

Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter. — Bill Cosby

No American can understand the need for time
that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it
as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Things always work according to their nature. — C.S. Lewis

General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway. — John Scalzi

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher. — Morihei Ueshiba

Celaena put a hand against her chest. How absurd - how utterly absurd and useless - that her heart still beat and Nehemia's didn't — Sarah J. Maas

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation. — Michel De Montaigne

My religion: Very seldom do I feel a need for the presence of God. I don't pray and I don't know how to pray. When I enter a church, I try to pray, but I can't tell if I succeed or not. But often I have religious "attacks": the desire for isolation, for contemplation far from other people. Despair. The desire (and the hope) for asceticism. — Mircea Eliade