Boysrescuedfromcave Quotes & Sayings

Italy is a geographical expression. — Prince Metternich

The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close internal connection, and between which, as our knowledge increases, we are continually discovering new and sometimes wholly unexpected ties. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up. — Barack Obama

They'd stayed not because they wanted to be heroes, but because they chose to think of it as their job, and it was in front of them. — Terry Pratchett

What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion? — Swami Vivekananda

Halloween is the best holiday in the world. It even beats Christmas. — R.J. Palacio

If someone asks you for something, provide them with a clear "No" or a delivery date. — Omar Hamoui

How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out. — Orson Scott Card

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it. — Gordon Lightfoot

Stupid English."
"English isn't stupid," I say.
"Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me."
"Why not?"
"He says lunch isn't a subject."
I glance at him. "It isn't."
"Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that? — Jodi Picoult

Love / is turning out the lights when others do, a curfew we / would take / for sails. — Jorie Graham

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch. — P.G. Wodehouse

After all, you can only hold one person tight if you're holding on with both hands. — Heidi Heilig

After nineteen hundred years the Sermon on the Mount still haunts men. They may praise it, as Mahatma Gandhi did; or like Nietzsche, they may curse it. They cannot ignore it. Its words are winged words, quick and powerful to rebuke, to challenge, to inspire. And though some turn from it in despair, it continues, like some mighty magnetic mountain, to attract to itself the greatest spirits of our race (many not Christians), so that if some world-wide vote were taken, there is little doubt that men would account it "the most searching and powerful utterance we possess on what concerns the moral life."2 — Charles L. Quarles