77845 Quotes & Sayings

Longing for the mountains — John Muir

It's very hard to have a productive dialogue with a thirteen-year-old boy, as every gently broached subject becomes an Ultimate Conversation, requiring defense systems and counterattacks to attacks that were never launched. What begins as an innocent observation about his habit of leaving things in the pockets of dirty clothes ends with Sam blaming his parents for his twenty-eighth-percentile height, which makes him want to commit suicide on YouTube. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind — Allison McAtee

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove. — Lew Wasserman

I am late,' she said, 'I know that I am late. So many little things have to be done when you are alone, and I am not yet accustomed to being alone,' she added with a pretty little sob which reminded me of a cut-glass Victorian tear-bottle. She took off thick winter gloves with a wringing gesture which made me think of handkerchiefs wet with grief, and her hands looked suddenly small and useless and vulnerable. — Graham Greene

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan. — Gary L. Francione

Tonight you die to be reborn in the morning, like every second that exists — Brian E. Miller

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better. — Jefferson Han

You don't lack motivation; you lack confidence in success - and that drives your motivation elsewhere, to avoid the feeling or the fear. — Marcia Conner

For the first time in my life, I want the right to get married. I've met somebody who meets the criteria of what I've always imagined in and wanted from a partner - someone to marry and to bring children into the world with. — Kyan Douglas

I really consider myself fortunate to have been of age during the musical revolution that came in the form of the Beatles. People don't realize that previous to the Beatles, there really was no such thing as an album artist. People made singles. Then they would put a bunch of those singles together and call it an album. And that was it. — Todd Rundgren

Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in emotion, a focusing of attention, a brand-new memory. — Atul Gawande

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person. — Eduardo Galeano