54545 Quotes & Sayings

Never lived up to my potential. - Leslie Sterling — Rachel Fershleiser

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while. — Randy Harrison

There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you. — Tom Rob Smith

Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts. — Virginia Postrel

Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done so. In point of fact, He unintentionally knocked over the first domino by creating a palette of atoms with different shapes. Electron clouds bonded, molecules bloomed, proteins embraced, and eventually cells formed and learned how to hang on to one another like lovebirds. He discovered that by simmering the Earth at the proper distance from the Sun, it instinctively sprouted with life. He's not so much a creator as a molecule tinkerer who enjoyed a stroke of luck: He simply set the ball rolling by creating a smorgasbord of matter, and creation ensued. — David Eagleman

The devil whispers "you cannot withstand the storm". The warrior replies "I am the storm". — Anonymous

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

There is a budding morrow in midnight. — John Keats

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.' — Laurie Halse Anderson

Our Heavenly Father is the Father of our spirits, and Jesus Christ is the Creator of this world. They know and understand us and the world around us better than anyone else. Looking to a higher source for knowledge and power can help us far more than relying on the wisdom of the world. We need to have the Spirit and look to the prophets and our priesthood leaders. We also need to look to the scriptures, which contain God's words to holy men. — Allan F. Packer

The heart of change is in the emotions. — John P. Kotter

Irene nodded. She couldn't say it but she knew she was destroying a world. A little culture. It was the known and safe way of behaving in the family. All the rituals, wrong or sick, it didn't matter, good or bad, would be useless. All the strategies. They knew the familiar treacheries, but now they would be open to new dangers. — Louise Erdrich

You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy. — Colin Powell

But Teatime was okay. True, after a few minutes talking to him your eyes began to water and you felt you needed to scrub your skin even on the inside, but no one was perfect, were they? — Terry Pratchett

I was a man by middle school. — Edgerrin James