Deadify Quotes & Sayings

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' — Robert Fulghum

We stayed a step behind the three boys. Every once in a while they would turn around and look at us, wondering, I guess, why we were following them. Sometimes they stared openly at Ema. There may have been derision in their eyes, I couldn't say for sure. Ema was decked out in her customary black - black clothes, black hair, black nail polish, black lipstick. Tattoos ran up and down her arms and across her neck. I — Harlan Coben

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. — Mary Shelley

The Afghan "negotiation phase" immediately precedes the traditional Afghan "surrender phase." This entails the following: The defeated party surrenders and then comes out shooting. This is repeated several times. Finally, the vanquished party runs out of ammunition and is forced to surrender ' but seriously this time ' at which point the victors kill the foreigners and hug their fellow Afghans like long-lost brothers. — Ann Coulter

The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts. — Elizabeth II

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96. — Joe Lieberman

Annie: Maybe you all do. It's my idea of the original sin.
James: What is?
Annie: Giving up. — William Gibson

Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years. — Mark Nepo

We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond — Dalai Lama

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything. — Ilya Ehrenburg

You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion. — Simon Taylor-Davis

Most people are resentful of the happiness of others and yet we seem to seek validation from others in order to allow our own happiness ... it's easy to see the problem with this system. — Steve Maraboli

If a man works without any selfish motive in view, does he not gain anything? Yes, he gains the highest. Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it. It is more paying from the point of view of health also. Love, truth, and unselfishness are not merely moral figures of speech, but they form our highest ideal, because in them lies such a manifestation of power. In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever, without thinking of future, of heaven, of punishment, or anything of the kind, has in him the capacity to become a powerful moral giant. It is hard to do it, but in the heart of our hearts we know its value, and the good it brings. It is the greatest manifestation of power - this tremendous restraint; self-restraint is a manifestation of greater power than all outgoing action. — Swami Vivekananda

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others. — David Deida