54867 Quotes & Sayings

Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this; however fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, think and live fashionably; virtue and honour will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed, self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honour will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so. In short, Davey, God is not dead. And I can assure you God is not mocked. — Robertson Davies

Paul. She hadn't just watched him die. She had taken in his death like a hummingbird drawing nectar. — Karin Slaughter

Jessica's smile makes Ron slide his hand over the console, let it work down between her blue-jeaned thighs. — Blake Crouch

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. — David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol. — Robert Baden-Powell

I need to hold on to the faded love 'cause I love to secure the stems of dying flowers — Munia Khan

In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness. — Antonio Damasio