Divded Quotes & Sayings

Having my daughter I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception. — Joan Rivers

If I have no contact whatsoever with God in my life, then I cannot see in the other anything more than the other, and I am incapable of seeing in him the image of God. But if in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be "devout" and to perform my "religious duties", then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely "proper", but loveless. Only my readiness to encounter my neighbour and to show him love makes me sensitive to God as well. Only if I serve my neighbour can my eyes be opened to what God does for me and how much he loves me. — Pope Benedict XVI

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people. — Bob Dylan

Wisdom is justified of her children. — Matthew McConaughey

His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the ground of all perception before it was divded up in daily living: the Primary Imagination giving way to the Secondary. Poetry was forever seeking a conscious return to this state, which existed all the time, whether he knew it or not. — Peter Redgrove

Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up? — Richard Russo

The eternal link between Lincoln's life and Passover - the fact that Lincoln's death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year - is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation. — Meir Soloveichik

The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning. — Max Weber

I don't get it. Scratch, bite, squeal, slap. Why do women fight like that? They've got fists. It's embarrassing to our entire gender. — J.D. Robb

Hemmingway was a jerk. — Harold Robbins

She didn't care what common sense said, she wanted him to kiss her again. — Carolyn Brown

Happiness depends on perception, not on possessions. — Debasish Mridha

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game. — Robinson Jeffers

That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad. — P.C. Cast