Aprire File Quotes & Sayings

My friends need to be punished. — Lil' O

Do you know how I picture God myself?" he said. "As an enormous, creative organ beyond our ken, who scatters millions of worlds into space, just as one single fish would deposit its spawn in the sea. He creates because it is His function as God to do so, but He does not know what He is doing and is stupidly prolific in His work and is ignorant of the combinations of all kinds which are produced by His scattered germs. — Guy De Maupassant

Joy is an incredible alarm clock. It will wake you up and keep you up and pick you up and gently pull you through a thousand rejections along the way. — Jon Acuff

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me. — Corneille Ewango

It was, if you like, an oasis in the general desert of childish and adult ignorance where we could safely bring out our thoughts and not have them denigrated, laughed at, or trampled upon, even when they deserved it. A place like that is precious. — Alexei Panshin

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category. — Michael Arad

Misery and shame are nearly allied. — Samuel Johnson

The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on. — John Updike

The beauty of a landscape resides in its melancholy. — Ahmet Rasim

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. — Albert Camus

But the anger has not only drawn attention to injustice; it has driven people to action, sparking movements and spurring them forward. At the very least, the public expression of black rage has allowed communities and people who have felt isolated in their own anger to know that they are not alone. Anger is what makes our struggle visible. — Mychal Denzel Smith

The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever. — Beth Moore Jones

There may not be a placement but definitely, there is a life above grades — Lovely Goyal

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine. — Linda Ronstadt