8220 Quotes & Sayings

And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new structures have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are difficult of comprehension. — Marcel Proust

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Unity is not agreeing with each other about God. Rather it is agreeing with God about each other. — Anonymous

We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it — Les Back

The only way to be really happy, in such a world as this is to be ever casting all our cares on God. — J.C. Ryle

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy. — Seth Godin

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done. — Jesse Harris

In my dear pine-clad mountains of the Harz There's a pitchlike smell, a smell I favor Most of all, excepting that of sulphur. But here among these Greeks there's not a trace Of anything like that. I'm curious To find out what they use below in their Hell To stoke the fires with, their kind of fuel. DRYAD. I guess you're smart enough in your own country, Abroad you're something less than apt; 8220 Stop thinking home thoughts, try, Sir, to adapt And show due honor to our sacred oak tree. MEPHISTO. What you have lost, that's what you think about, — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It seems that Jesus did that for us over and over again. He said yes to uncomfortable things - like being friends with tax collectors and eating in their homes. Like letting a "woman . . . who lived a sinful life" (Luke 7:37) break a bottle of expensive perfume over his feet in an act of love and gratitude. Like considering Judas one of his best friends, even when he knew, he knew, Judas would be the one to turn on him. — Annie F. Downs

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me. — Roberto Bolano

I know you have trust issues. I understand that. I can only repeat what I said to you this morning, which is you must listen to your heart. It's an acquired skill, Grace, but a very valuable one. Deep down inside of you, you know with whom to place your trust and, more importantly, with whom to place your heart. — Lisa C. Temple

I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it. — Shemar Moore

90? 110? You know. It's a Ferrari, baby - you don't do 50 in a Ferrari. — Eddie Griffin

Maybe we should all find one," I say. Or maybe, just for once, I should wait for someone to find me first. — Jason Heller

Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. — Penn Jillette

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself. — Jerome K. Jerome