8990 Quotes & Sayings

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought. — Tiberius

When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it. — John Patrick Shanley

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out. — Francois Rabelais

Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lampshade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted. — Virginia Woolf

The excessive pleasure we imagine receiving from what we want most of all is fleeting at best. — Peter Rollins

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else. — Geoff Gaberino

We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community. — Margaret Visser

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. — George Washington

Success, It makes you beautiful — Ameya Agrawal

My career has been an inch at a time. — Ryan Reynolds