72521shja21 Quotes & Sayings

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss. — Gerard Arpey

I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more. — Raymond Chandler

An entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle. — Slavoj Zizek

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There is a compelling tendency to forget who you are and what you were made for. There is a tendency to be shortsighted, myopic, and easily distracted. There is a tendency to settle for less when you have been created for more. There is something expansive, glorious, and eternal that is meant to give direction to everything you do. — Paul David Tripp

Often something looks, or is felt to look, "better" in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions of photography to improve the normal appearance of things. (Hence, one is always disappointed by a photograph that is not flattering.) — Susan Sontag

Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him: but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting- room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me. — John Bercow

Sharp lines draw too much attention to themselves, like vanity. And what's vanity but a series of sharp lines which have yet to be softened? — Glenn Haybittle

Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him. — Susan Cooper

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. — Mahmoud Darwish

I had no choice but to pray for his death. Typically enough, the one thing that never occurred to me was to kill him. During the course of my life I have wished innumerable times that I might meet with a violent death, but I have never once desired to kill anybody. I thought that in killing a dreaded adversary I might actually be bringing him happiness. — Osamu Dazai

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Life is not about having perfect days. Life is not about handling days perfectly. Life is about perfecting one's character through the having and handling of every given day. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site. — Jason Calacanis