87e10 Quotes & Sayings

Such is life. Sometimes we do not even want to know how much pain we cause others, for fear of spoiling our own petty pleasures. And when the time comes to face the consequences, it is too late to be sorry. — Menelaos Stephanides

I take a swig of wine. A big one. It's pointless. There's not enough wine in the world for this. — Leisa Rayven

The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning. — Austin O'Malley

Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work. — Pliny The Elder

No new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter ...
... to institute an effective totalitarian system or indeed any system at all, you must offer some benefits and freedoms, at least to a privileged few, in return to those you remove ... — Margaret Atwood

...it was hard to be a mother when you had never been mothered yourself. Your children's needs remind you of your needs. Their pain reminds you of your pain. All of it reminds you of how bad it felt, how hard it was, how much you wanted and needed and didn't get. It's very hard. — Sarah Dunn

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. — Joyce Carol Oates

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest ... — F Scott Fitzgerald

Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious self-expression. Rather, it was an expression of the essence of a
people. — Vine Deloria Jr.

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world? — John Henry Jowett

America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented. — Gerald R. Ford

It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship. — Josh McDowell

It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage. — Anthony Jeselnik