44925 Quotes & Sayings

People are nervous about their kids, and they're worried about the disintegration of families and the type of media culture they're living in. — Catherine Hardwicke

Then she wondered, not for the first time, about the differences between wizards and witches. The main difference, she thought, was that wizards used books and staffs to create spells, big spells about big stuff, and they were men. While witches - always women - dealt with everyday stuff. Big stuff too, she reminded herself firmly. What could be bigger than births and deaths? but why shouldn't this boy want to be a witch? She had chosen to be a witch, so why couldn't he make the same choice? With a start, she realized it was her choice that counted here too. If she was going to be a sort of head witch, she should be able to decide this. She didn't have to ask any other witches. It could be her decision. Her responsibility. Perhaps a first step toward doing things differently? — Terry Pratchett

That which is meddling, touching everything, — Lao-Tzu

They had slept in the shelter of the ruins, though neither of them really got true rest. — Sarah J. Maas

Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world? — Ken Follett

With regard to religion, finally, it may be briefly said that she believed in God in much the same way as she believed in Australia. For she had no doubts whatever as to the existence of either; ad she went to church on Sunday in much the same spirit as she would look at a kangaroo in the zoological gardens; for kangaroos came from Australia. — E.F. Benson

There's no soldier don't have a queer little spot in his wretched heart for his enemy, that's just a fact. — Sebastian Barry

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way. — J.J. Abrams

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people. — Kazuo Ishiguro

To think we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth. — Jane Wagner

God is its author, and not man; he laid
The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made
Us so that we could hear and understand. — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

We bribe the Guild with a monstrous payment in spice to keep our skies clear of satellites and such that none may spy what we do to the face of Arrakis. She — Frank Herbert

Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result. — Philip Roth

He who has little will receive. He who has much will be embarrassed. — Laozi