Conflictive Quotes & Sayings

Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man
a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit. — Henry David Thoreau

Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind. — Pablo

Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose. — Satish Kumar

If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection. — Francois Fenelon

It would be easier if this was a story, he thought. In — Robert Jordan

In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you're doing it differently. — Daniel Radcliffe

If the Lowland farmer spoke with an uncouth accent, dressed in rags, lived in a miserable hovel, and fed on the same grain he fed his animals, it was not because he was a savage but because the relentless marauding of the English left him with very little choice. As for why he didn't simply cut his throat, the answer is that he was a Presbyterian and did not expect much in the way of earthly happiness. — William Maxwell

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. — Charlotte Bronte

There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person you are. — Mike Krzyzewski

Stop focusing on the bad stuff because life is too damn short. — Simone Elkeles

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Men create the gods after their own images. — Aristotle.

I don't work this hard just to be the best player. I do it to win. — Holly McPeak

To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination. — Glenn Greenwald