Deductions For Home Quotes & Sayings

Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same. — Matthew Quick

I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values. — Stephen Pagliuca

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure. — Whitey Herzog

If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity. — Brunello Cucinelli

Cells became molecules - countless and complex and varied. The demarcation of one thing and another failed. There was only a community of molecules, shifting in a vast dance. And then the atoms that made the molecules gave up their space, and she was a breath. A mist. A tiny play of fields and interactions in a vacuum as perfect as space. She was a vibration in nothingness. — James S.A. Corey

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are. — Mark Nepo

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth. — Khalil Gibran

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out. — Stan Getz

The person who goes astray from God's wise guidance burdens himself with sorrows and frustrations. In fact, he ends up being a slave to his own desires. — Vern Sheridan Poythress

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more. — Gwen Stefani

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic? — Georgette Heyer

Write (this includes any thoughts I don't want to have - write them out fast so they're out of me and on the paper). — Jennifer Niven