4785 Quotes & Sayings

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick. — Mark Twain

As a child she was unique, she was a dreamer, she lived in her own world. Where it was safe. — Tina J. Richardson

You can hurt some of the people some of the time, you never can hurt all the people all the time but you can love all the people most of the time. — Debasish Mridha

I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind of warped women's minds into thinking we don't know how to birth and we need doctors and epidurals and Pitocin. — Sarah Shahi

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away. — Benoit Mandelbrot

My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study. — Moran Atias

An ordinary intellect will, by industry and perseverance, often accomplish more than a much superior one, deficient in energy and the power of endurance. — L.G. Abell

Spiritual renewal occurs in the wilderness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and divides the earth very much. This is the chief and almost only use of dung ... This proves, that its (manure) use is not to nourish, but to dissolve, i.e., divide the terrestrial matter, which affords nourishment to the Mouths of vegetable roots.
His underestimate of the value of manure. — Jethro Tull

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. — Octavia Butler

When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center. — Mircea Eliade

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking. — Kailash Satyarthi

A lot of these movies are informed by the movies that come before them. — Len Wiseman

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding. — Phil Klay