Ap English Language Quotes & Sayings

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. — Frederick Buechner

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing. — Sophie Ristelhueber

He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods. — Pythagoras

When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically and artistically. But I believe that the connection to a piece of music is something much more personal and mysterious than all of these bits of information. — Helene Grimaud

Food that is necessary for man's existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise. — Maximilien Robespierre

Oblivion is not to be hired. — Thomas Browne

All their love had been a way of fixing time, each embrace a moment's touch of the eternal, because the caress preserves. — Kim Stanley Robinson

The wheels on the bus may go 'round and 'round, but that bus might run you over if the driver gets fired. — Corey Taylor

I feel like a total hippie right now. I'm passionate about all sorts of things - a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest. — Dreama Walker

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective. — Joseph Heller

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. — Harold Macmillan

So there were certainly people who thought that feelings could not be judged by looking at cars. But they were wrong. — Fredrik Backman

Ninety percent of the time, the game is going to be decided in the final five minutes. When two teams are evenly matched, the better conditioned team will usually execute better when fatigue set sin, and will probably win. — John Wooden