78306 Quotes & Sayings

I've never played an attorney, and I'd like to do so on a show like 'The Practice' or 'Law & Order.' — Juliet Landau

The trivial preoccupations of daily life are not enough for man; wisdom too is a native hunger. — Paramahansa Yogananda

The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter. — Robin Williams

Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance. — Umar

On the occasion of yoga day, I want to offer you the simplest form of yoga: Namaskar - Yoga for all. — Sadghuru

I know, somewhere in me, that it's not her that's being stupid. I understand, on one level, that she doesn't know, that everything's up in the air. But that's no use to me. You know the worst thing about being rejected? The lack of control. If you could only control the when and how of being dumped by somebody, then it wouldn't seem as bad. But then, of course, it wouldn't be rejection, would it? It would be by mutual consent. It would be musical differences. I would be leaving to pursue a solo career. I know how unbelievably and pathetically childish it is to push and push like this for some degree of probability, but it's the only thing I can do to grab any sort of control back from her. — Nick Hornby

Just like Love is yonder rose,
Heavenly fragrance round it throws,
Yet tears its dewy leaves disclose,
And in the midst of briars it blows
Just like Love. — Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

The best lies about me are the ones I told. — Patrick Rothfuss

I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live. — Usain Bolt

The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that is one of the symptoms of a dying culture. In ancient Rome, as the republic disintegrated and the Caesars were deified, as the Roman Senate became little more than an echo chamber of the emperor, the population's attention was diverted by a series of frontier wars and violent and elaborate spectacles in the arena. The excitement of entertainment consumed ancient Rome's emotional and intellectual life. It poisoned civic and political discourse. Social critics no longer had a form in which to speak. They were answered with ridicule and rage. It was not prerogative of the citizen to think. — Chris Hedges

She no longer fought out of fear for the man she loved. Instead, she fought with an understanding. She was a knife - Elend's knife, the Final Empire's knife. — Brandon Sanderson

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball. — Christine Lagarde

I may be a city boy, but I'm fairly certain that the greasy purple and red squishy bits are supposed to stay inside the sheep and not be sprayed across a surprisingly large area.
"Animal attack?" I asked. — Ben Aaronovitch

Miranda put a hand over her face and looked through her fingers, the world in pieces, her father's legs gone, the woman's torso vanished. Now they looked like broken dolls, their jaws clacking, breeze blowing through their hollows. — Helen Oyeyemi