Bluminescent Quotes & Sayings

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The mind is wired by society, the heart is wired by your deepest desires for a blissful life. — Steven Redhead

As C. S. Lewis pointed out, it is not that our desires are too strong (as Stoicism would have it), but that they are too weak. 3 The irony of our lives is that we demand the ephemeral, momentary glories of this fading age, too easily amused and seduced by the trivial, when ultimate joy is held out to us. — Michael S. Horton

were often in a similar boat. Jane knew what I was once, — Anne Bennett

Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as or the most despotical. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed. — Adam Smith

It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected. — Jon Evans

Afterwards, walking to the car with my father, he told me I had played a nice game. No I hadn't, I said, it was terrible. Well, you did your best, he answered. You can't do well everytime. — Paul Auster

Expand the leadership. — Morton Blackwell

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself — Meg Cabot

I write songs about real things ... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. — John Mayall

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done. — Lalla Ward

One of the things that's fascinating about making movies is a movie when it's done and you start showing it to people, it reveals its impact, which is often times not what you thought. — Peter Berg

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge