44461 Quotes & Sayings

It takes patience and perseverance to discover precious jewel of greatness in a landmine of dirt. And when found, it is worth it — Josephine Akhagbeme

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you. — Neale Donald Walsch

I think common-looking people are the best in the world. That's why the Lord makes so many of them. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Dreams are powerless unless they are specific. — Bo Sanchez

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted! — Philip Massinger

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. — Michel Foucault

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that. — Naomi Oreskes

I don't know if you have ever seem a map of a person's mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child's mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island; for the Neverland is always more or less and island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose. — J.M. Barrie

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say. — Rachel Maddow

We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all. — William James