47362 Quotes & Sayings

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us. — Teresa Of Avila

What we call originality is no more than ignorance of antecedents. — Dee Hock

Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it. — Robin Hobb

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don't ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul. — Ayn Rand

Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight? — John Milton

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's so much easier to point a finger than to take responsibility yourself, isn't it? Maybe it isn't so simple as this person's fault or that one. Maybe we make up the dance together, as we go along, and no one knows what the result will be. — Claire Cross

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. — Robert A. Heinlein

I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway ... It's the holy grail for people like me. — Jeremy Piven

Reason can go only to a certain extent, beyond that it cannot reach. The circle within which it runs is very very limited indeed. Yet at the same time, we find facts rush into this circle. Like the coming of comets certain things come into this circle; it is certain they come from outside the limit, although our reason cannot go beyond. — Swami Vivekananda

I'm just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can. I've just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me. — Aisha Tyler

She'd never know what to do with children: Francis had wrong-footed her so completely that she'd come to think of them as delightful but volatile species no more to be trusted than cats. — Sarah Perry