Belle 2013 Quotes & Sayings

Too many people die early, either tragically or natural death, because they did not treat their lives with any sense of value. — Sunday Adelaja

They had a place where they belonged, and, even if it was because he didn't want to deal with their being different, he didn't treat them any differently. Which I think is a pretty successful implementation of Christianity. — Tina Fey

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems. — Corey Feldman

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language. — Rumi

A = A is a simplification, one so radical that it sometimes utterly distorts reality. It skins reality alive. Is A = A useful? Does logic come in handy? Is math a magnificent symbolic system with which to comprehend what's around us? And is math based on A = A? Yes. Absolutely. But math and logic are just that - very, very simplified representations. Symbolic systems with massive powers. But symbolic systems that sometimes do enormous injustice to the richness of that which they attempt to represent. Symbol systems that sometimes do enormous injustice to science's greatest mystery, cosmic creativity. — Howard Bloom

In much of the industrialized world, we eat meat not because we have to; we eat meat because we choose to. We don't need meat to survive or even to be healthy; millions of healthy and long-lived vegetarians have proven this point. We eat animals simply because it's what we've always done, and because we like the way they taste. Most of us eat animals because it's just the way things are. — Melanie Joy

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. — Golda Meir

In the fourth century, John Cassian described a condition among his fellow monks that he called "acedia": a "weariness or distress of heart . . . akin to dejection" that took "possession" of unhappy souls and left them lazy, sluggish, restless, and solitary. Later, acedia became widely translated as sloth, one of the seven deadly sins, and blended with melancholy in the popular mind. Both required, at the very least, confession and penitence. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

I'd like to be known for stepping up, and encouraging others to do the same. — Leigh Anne Tuohy

Nobody writes down stories." [Ananna]
"They do when they're trapped at sea and bored senseless." [Naji] — Cassandra Rose Clarke

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history. — Vernor Vinge

The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler. — William Butler Yeats

imagined how great it would feel to jump into the water to cool off. Sure, she could just go inside the main cabin and freeze in the air conditioning. But — Kaira Rouda

Our attitudes are the results of who we believe ourselves to be. — Justin Young