Caesary Online Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes he wondered if man's instincts had changed in that time and always concluded that they hadn't. At least in the basic, most primal ways. As far as he could tell, man had always been aggressive, always striving to dominate, trying to control the world and everything in it. — Nicholas Sparks

Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven ... then came the industrial revolution ... so the child-centered home was born. — Billy Graham

When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility. — David Cottrell

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel. — Richard Rohr

I've got to learn something from my mistakes instead of establishing a new record to break. — Carrie Fisher

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us. — Mitch Albom

For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was easy to detect the confrontation that was already taking place between traditional and modern elements in the Islamic world. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

A man of no conversation should smoke. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most powerful force in the world is compound interest. — Albert Einstein

Batman doesn't have to put up with this shit
why should we? — Caitlin Moran

The pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them. — Agnes Repplier

We want very good leaders who have a lot of power. — Charlie Munger

I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ... " and the ones beginning "My problem with this poem is ... " — Denis Johnson

A teenage Filipino boy walked up to the car and just stood there, the way people do when disaster strikes. — Miranda July

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin. — Edmond De Goncourt