Apophthegm Quotes & Sayings

Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free. — Asa Don Brown

Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life. — Maggie Stiefvater

I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school, apart from the context of literature, music, and art. But history has lately been revealed to me as the place where I live, where we all live, side by invisible side with others who - if we get quiet enough and listen carefully enough - will touch us and tell us their stories. — Barbara Quick

If there are no stars on the sky, you must try to be happy with the shining streetlights! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out across some voluminous tome, the thought is ready-made, the heavy lifting done. It's there to be used like a weapon or tool, and as time wanders on, seemingly leaving us fewer and fewer new things to say, it becomes ever more useful. As technology moves forward, as well, it also becomes much easier. Indeed, in this "information age" where so much is available to so many so quickly that enlightenment nearly verges on light pollution, it can sometimes appear that expression has been reduced to nothing more than a mad race to unearth and claim references. As such, the citation is also there to be donned, like some article of fashion from which we may reap the praise of discriminating taste without ever exerting ourself in the actual toil of manufacture. — Jasper Siegel Seneschal

No child or future generation will ever know what this was like. They will never understand. When it is over we will go quietly among the living and we will not tell them. We will talk and sleep and go about our business like human beings. We will seal what we have seen in the silence of our hearts and no words will reach us. — Sebastian Faulks

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. — Maurice Maeterlinck

I am against any reconciliation with Israel. — Hassan Nasrallah

The leadings of the Holy Spirit will help you to achieve your goals in the quickest way. — Sunday Adelaja

There is the question of loneliness. But again, this is not how you imagined it (if you had ever tried to imagine it). There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse. — Julian Barnes

APOPHTHEGM (A'POPHTHEGM) n.s. remarkable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion. — Samuel Johnson

I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person. — Charlie Cox

He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird. — Audrey Niffenegger

I remember the first date I ever went out on. It was in high school. Her name was Marguerite. She was kind of a heavyset girl ... I took her out on one date. We went out for dinner and a movie and a dinner. — Kevin Nealon

Broncos played the San Francisco 49ers at Sports Authority Field — Anonymous

When someone in privileged circumstances gets a bit bewildered or stymied or maybe stumbles, the light he sees things in will change. But seeing things in a different light doesn't mean he's changed his vantage point. — Soseki Natsume