538 Georgia Quotes & Sayings

Yes, it struck her now that this whole business of the bull was like a life; the important birth, the fair chance, the tentative, then assured, then half-dispairing circulations of the ring, an obstacle negotiated - a feat improperly recognized - boredom, resignation, collapse: then another, more convulsive birth, a new start; the circumspect endeavours to obtain one's bearings in a world now frankly hostile, the apparent but deceptive encouragement of one's judges, half of whom were asleep, the swervings into the beginnings of disaster because of that same negligible obstacle one had surely taken before at a stride, the final enmeshment in the toils of enemies one was never quite certain weren't friends more clumsy than actively ill-disposed, followed by disaster, capitulation, disintegration. — Malcolm Lowry

In 1992 came the first confirmed observation of a planet orbiting a star other than our sun. — Stephen Hawking

I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas. — Paula Hawkins

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule. — Patricia Moyes

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since. — Charles De Lint

Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain. — Colley Cibber

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it. — Oswald Chambers

There's nothing more American than movies. — Adam McKay

Thus, as I review the list of my friends and acquaintances, most of them emerge as stained with maniac stigmata of one sort or another. I begin to feel considerably reassured. The truth may simply be that human society is no more than a massing of lunatics. — Soseki Natsume

History is the story of events, with praise or blame. — Cotton Mather

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy. — Ellen DeGeneres

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;
Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors. — Joseph Addison