Batchelors Quotes & Sayings

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose. — William P. Young

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold. — Mariska Hargitay

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone. — Jodi Picoult

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant. — Louis Sullivan

We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake. — George Herbert

His dreams contained no stories at all, but only the hard stones of thoughts: the unimaginably unlikely coincidence of being alive at the same time as the love of your life, the frequency with which a person was expected to bear the body and the burden of someone else, the idiocy of thinking that kindness can protect the person who is kind, and worst of all, the bottomless pit of truth that he had suddenly, sickeningly seen: that the world to come was not an afterlife at all, but simply this world, to come- the future world, your own future, that you were creating for yourself with every choice you made in it. — Dara Horn

The crime that is latent in us we must inflict on ourselves," I say. I nod and nod, driving the message home. "Not on others," I say. — J.M. Coetzee

And then the storm of shit begins. — Roberto Bolano

If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion. — Wendy Kopp