92 Inspiring Quotes & Sayings

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said. — Pope John XXIII

It was a circumstance to be noted on the summer morning when our story begins its course, that the women, of whom there were several in the crowd, appeared to take a peculiar interest in whatever — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money ... — David Ogilvy

John McCain turned 72 years old last Friday, but the Chinese are making him a birth certificate that says he's only 33 and then he'll be ready to go. — David Letterman

Action is the core of everything-7 Rituals to win forever — Anupam Jaiswal

Just because sandcastles are temporary, it never stopped me from making them as beautiful as possible. — Bella Forrest

They were spoken in the heat of an unpleasant moment, and not to be taken at face value in any permanent sense. Remember — Jeff Lindsay

[92] Plato, in his fourth book of Laws, says that the praefectures of music and gymnic exercises are the most important employments in the city; and, in his Republic, iii, Damon will tell you, says he, what sounds are capable of corrupting the mind with base sentiments, or of inspiring the contrary virtues. — Montesquieu

Not satisfied with endlessly pulling drowning men from the torrents rushing past, Day went upstream to see who was throwing the poor bastards into the water in the first place - and — James Carroll

Enacting elements of the Affordable Care Act isn't backtracking on core principles, but rather understanding that new ways to help make health care affordable builds stronger businesses and saves struggling hospitals. And that is a very attractive offer. — Ronnie Musgrove

When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know. — Jennifer Harrison

In elaborating how "philosophy by showing" works, and in defending the idea that literature and music can contribute to philosophical "showing", I am also doing something more standardly philosophical. But I view most of the book as an interweaving of philosophy and literary criticism. If that entails a broadening of a standard idea of philosophy, it's a broadening I'd like to see happen. — Philip Kitcher