4711 Quotes & Sayings

Daydreaming subverts the world. — Raoul Vaneigem

In Kabbalah, as in the Hassidic tradition, you cure the body, but you fix the soul. Curing takes time, but fixing, if you know how to do it, is immediate. — Shlomo Carlebach

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

We have two lives...
The second begins when we know we only have one.. — Abha Maryada Banerjee

No writer in the world agonizes over words the way a scientist does. Terminology is everything: — Hope Jahren

Life is unpredictable.But do not allow the difficulties of day-to-day to deprive you of your confidence and hope. Never allow life's disappointments to get you down. Get up any time you fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else. — James Avery

I think it is absolutely crazy in this day and age that I have to go through a trial and error method to see if my child is allergic to an antibiotic or peanuts. I should just know. — Anne Wojcicki

He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular and self-indulgent exploration, a means of makings sense of the past years, part catharsis, part comforting affirmation. — P.D. James

To exaggerate is to weaken. — Jean-Francois De La Harpe

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. — Daphne Du Maurier

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities. — Myron Scholes

To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air. — Anthony Doerr

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist's work. — Edward W. Said