Ated Online Quotes & Sayings

I hate travelling and explorers — Claude Levi-Strauss

Laroche was wrong about that, wrong about men not understanding love.
Anyway, most of the romantic poems and songs and paintings in the world were by men, so what was she talking about? — Josh Lanyon

Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen. — John Piper

Life is a void, an emptiness; it began with nothing and ends with nothing. — Debasish Mridha

You can't be a superhero or super mom. — Thalia

Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you ... haven't you ever felt that way about music?'
Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.'
Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.'
Red: 'Forget?'
Andy: 'Forget that ... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside ... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.'
Red: 'What're you talking about?'
Andy: 'Hope. — Stephen King

Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series. — James Gunn

Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy's - that's usually the way this business works. — Matt Taibbi

You don't have to be married to be whole. As a matter of fact a husband is an add-on, he is not the completion of the equation. — T.T. McClendon

Mindfulness isn't something we practice only in the meditation hall; we also practice in the kitchen, in the garden, or when we're on the telephone, driving the car, or washing the dishes. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet. — Brad D. Smith

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day. — Mason Cooley

She was, after all, a mattress owner and understood the subtleties of life. — Ilya Ilf

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted. — Martin Luther

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. — J.B. Priestley