44134 Quotes & Sayings

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for
you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air. — Vernon Howard

Great things are done by devotion to one idea. — John Henry Newman

Three things no one has ever said about me:
You make it look so easy.
You are very mysterious.
You need to take yourself more seriously. — Jenny Offill

There's a kind of gap between what I think is real and what's really real , I get this feeling like some kind of little something other is there somewhere inside me ... ..like a burglar is in the house hiding in a closet ... and it comes out every once in a while and messes up whatever order or logic I've established the way a magnet can make a machine go crazy — Haruki Murakami

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. — James Joyce

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit ... If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it - you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world. — Harry Crews

Nothing can be truly great which is not right. — Samuel Johnson

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve. — Albert Einstein

Most people are afraid of what will happen when they go outside the lines. — K. Melissa Kennedy

You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin — Rodney Crowell

God has called some people to join together in order to complete some task — Sunday Adelaja

We're not talking about your life. We're talking about your writing. Your imagination. Your creativity. And it's time you learned there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your writing takes an incredible amount of work. Your life takes more. — Jennifer Echols

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion. — Adam Mansbach

Loss reshapes us and teaches us to fill ourselves with something new. If we resist, we feel as you do. Hollow. Empty. — Ash Krafton

Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or Plato. And they don't smile much.
Nominalists have more fun. They are known as Aristotle or Decimus-et-Ultimus Barziza, or as Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montague, or perhaps by one name in childhood and several others in the course of life.
A firm Realist misses out on one of the most satisfying of all human activities
the assumption of secret identities. A man who has lived and never been someone else has never lived.
It is true that occasionally there can be embarrassment in secret identities, but only a Realist will take the whole thing seriously enough to hit you. So have your fun, and avoid Realists. — Alexei Panshin