6455 Quotes & Sayings

You see, there are three factors one must consider when choosing a snack from a vending machine. Substance, for one. It needs to hold you over until real food is available. Freshness, which your cereal bar is sorely lacking. And finally" - his eyes dropped to her mouth - "taste. — Tessa Bailey

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection — Robert A. Heinlein

Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them. — Harvey MacKay

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When I write, I can see things that I can't otherwise see, and I feel things that I can't otherwise feel. — Shauna Niequist

You live as if you will live forever, no care for your mortality ever enters your head, you pay no mind to how much time has already gone by. You waste time as if it was a limitless resource, when any moment you spend on someone else or some matter is potentially your last. — Seneca.

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form ... But I never want it to take over my acting. — Lupita Nyong'o

When you're dealing with Switzerland, Mr. Allon, it's best to keep one thing in mind. Switzerland is not a real country. It's a business, and it's run like a business. It's a business that is constantly in a defensive posture. It's been that way for seven hundred years. — Daniel Silva

A thought, once uttered, is untrue — Fyodor Tyutchev

A recent canvass of professional philosophers found the percentage of respondents who "accept or leans toward" various positions. On normative ethics, the results were deontology 25.9%; consequentialism 23.6%; virtue ethics 18.2%. On metaethics, results were moral realism 56.4%; moral anti-realism 27.7%. On moral judgment: cognitivism 65.7%; non-cognitivism 17.0% (Bourget and Chalmers 2009). — Nick Bostrom

Most of us assume we are seeing the world the way it really is. — Ned Herrmann