Baselines For Tool Quotes & Sayings

That propensity of lifting every problem from the plane of the understandable by means of some sort of mystic expression, is very Russian. I knew her well enough to have discovered her scorn for all the practical forms of political liberty known to the western world. I suppose one must be a Russian to understand Russian simplicity, a terrible corroding simplicity in which mystic phrases clothe a naive and hopeless cynicism. I think sometimes that the psychological secret of the profound difference of that people consists in this, that they detest life, the irremediable life of the earth as it is, whereas we westerners cherish it with perhaps an equal exaggeration of its sentimental value. But this is a digression indeed ... — Joseph Conrad

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them. — Johnny Weir

When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings are capable of preserving the history of our knowledge in the form of books, there there may still be hope. — Howard Norman

Truth begets knowledge and knowledge begets power. — Slade Combs

Take every moment as a gift of life to enjoy. Stress will melt away to fill your heart with gratitude. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling. — B.B. King

Falling in love was the easiest thing in the world to do. Why was it always so hard for me to survive it? — Kim Harrison

If we forget our past," the speaker was saying, "we won't remember our future and it will be as well for we won't have one." The General heard some of these words gradually. He had forgotten history and he didn't intend to remember it again. He had forgotten the name and face of his wife and the names and faces of his children or even if he had a wife and children, and he had forgotten the names of places and the places themselves and what had happened at them. — Flannery O'Connor

But it still feels like there's a popularity contest here I didn't sign up for. — Katy Evans

For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralized enemy who is advancing in utter disorder. — Eric Frank Russell

I see a schoolboy when I think of him,
With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window ... — William Butler Yeats