By The Iowa Sea Quotes & Sayings

Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people. — Fethullah Gulen

I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander. — Wayne Knight

At one congressional hearing, Bishop Francis Kalabat complained that administration officials are overlooking what's happening to his fellow Chaldean Christians. — Tom Gjelten

The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first. — Richard Carlson

I knew a young lady of the last "romantic" generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom she might quite easily have married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy her own caprice, and to be like Shakespeare's Ophelia. Indeed, if this precipice, a chosen and favourite spot of hers, had been less picturesque, if there had been a prosaic flat bank in its place, most likely the suicide would never have taken place. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is possible to grieve for the loss of a thing even as you are in possession of it. To crave the very thing you have been blessed with. — Joe Blair

I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. — Paolo Sorrentino