850 Wftl Quotes & Sayings

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot

Culture has tremendous inertia," he said. "That's why it's culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib. — Atul Gawande

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

At its heart, socialism is about the creation of a new society, built from the bottom up, through the struggles of ordinary working people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice - one that eliminates profit and power as the prime goals of life, and instead organizes our world around the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom. The — Alan Maass

I thought again of how Tobin had already killed five good people and was about to be the cause of two more dying. I couldn't believe that this little turd had actually caused all this death and misery. The only explanation I had for it was that short people with beady eyes and big appetites were ruthless and dangerous. — Nelson DeMille

The sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be. — Rachel Carson

Superficial religion consists of merely believing certain truths and doing certain things ... such superficial religion is rampant in the world today. — David Platt

Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work. — James Fenton

But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me. — Kevin Hearne

I certainly don't understand all these strange new feelings inside me
am I here because I love him, or because I owe him? — Marie Lu

An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders. — Stendhal