Babylist Quotes & Sayings

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If the objective exchange-value of money must always be linked with a pre-existing market exchange-ratio between money and other economic goods (since otherwise individuals would not be in a position to estimate the value of the money), it follows that an object cannot be used as money unless, at the moment when its use as money begins, it already possesses an objective exchange-value based on some other use. — Ludwig Von Mises

Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth! — David Berg

A slave can have life only by giving it away. "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." (Jesus) — James P. Carse

A good thrashing is what's needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten often? — J.K. Rowling

I'm grateful that on a lot of casts I've gained friends for life. But it's more of a rare thing than a normal thing. I have a small group of friends, and I just, uh, feel fulfilled by the people that are in my life. — Matt Czuchry

The ball is an essential part of the game. — Johan Cruijff

Contradictory conditions are always present. Evidence — Barbara W. Tuchman

Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it. — Bruce Tognazzini

His memory is the last place I want to be. — Colleen Hoover

I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being. — Ian McKellen

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life. — Jack Smith

The truly great are, in my view, always bound to feel a great sense of sadness during their time upon earth. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Written works do not produce fast reactions as pictures and sculptures and music do. it takes no effort to see or hear. but to read - to grasp what the writer has done - requires commitment. engagement. as is the case with most art, the relationship between the maker and the audience is remote in time and space. the writer is nowhere to be seen when the reader takes up the book, or even dead. but most often, books go unread ... thus the writer, knowing this as writers do, is even more alone ... yet writers write. and knowing what they know makes their isolation almost a sacrament. — Anneli Rufus