79357 Quotes & Sayings

The sublime signals the limits of rationality - the 'sleep' of reason - and was best communicated by obscurity. So in the same spirit as the recipes 'to make a romance', 'seven types of obscurity' could be proposed for a Gothic novel: — Nick Groom

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. — Jean Rostand

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities. — James Heckman

I guess I need to find a happy medium, someplace between giving them what they want and ending up face-down in a pool of my own goddamn integrity. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder. — Branch Warren

The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. — Abigail Van Buren

You're like the broken chapter of my favorite story. — Leylah Attar

Those who live only in the universal temporality can make their voices heard by the world. Those who simultaneously live in the universal and particular temporalities may hear voices from the other side, but they cannot make their own voices heard. — Minae Mizumura

A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded. — Teju Cole

lifetime risk of maternal death is one thousand times higher in a poor country than in the West. That should be an international scandal. The gap, moreover, is getting wider. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself — Karl Lagerfeld

I'm afraid to be alone, I'm afraid not to be alone. I'm afraid of what I am, what I'm not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don't want to stay at my job for the rest of my life, but I'm afraid to leave. And I'm just tired, you know? I'm just so tired of being afraid. — Michelle Pfeiffer

You don't achieve success, you attract success. — Farshad Asl

Did Brother Zachariah just steal our cat? — Cassandra Clare

Do not remain in the brokenness of illness, struggles and troubles...do not remain in this shatter....there is a way out for you. Read the Stellah Mupanduki books and find healing and live your good life in peace and happiness. — Stellah Mupanduki