51st State Wiki Quotes & Sayings

For the mindful god does detest untimely growth. — Friedrich Holderlin

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy. — Joseph Heller

O youth ... be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand ... Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them
They do not benefit him except by working ... Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working. — Al-Ghazali

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970. — John McGahern

Was the world dropping shit on everyone else or just me? — Cora Carmack

I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that. — Portia De Rossi

True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action,
But through love, modesty and self satisfaction. — Mouloud Benzadi

I can still enjoy sex at 74 - I live at 75, so it's no distance. — Bob Monkhouse

Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot. — Phyllis Logan

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God. — Francois Rabelais

The Shepherds and the Angels — Anonymous

The power of organized religions is based upon their contribution to social order and personal security, not to the search for truth. The goal of religions is submission to the will and common good of the tribe. The illogic of religions is not a weakness in them, but their essential strength. Acceptance of the bizarre creation myths binds the members together. Among — Edward O. Wilson

Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching. — Edwin Arlington Robinson