Doctests Quotes & Sayings

Finally, in a low whisper, he said, "I think I might be a terrible person." For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing. "No, — Miranda July

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't? — Paul Darrow

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A dog with big names does not live to see many day. — Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship. — Rufus Jones

Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate. — Miles Anthony Smith

And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished - that animates him. — Anita Shreve

We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist. — Albert Pike

We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart. — Nikki Rowe

Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter? — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling. — Serena Williams

I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody. — Edwidge Danticat

Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with the Lord. — John Napier