Eleventy Sample Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you count the days, sometimes you weigh them. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers. — Muhammad Ali

Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world? — Billy Graham

That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around. — Haruki Murakami

With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicans' embrace of a broken immigration system. — Arlene Holt Baker

The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections of the pupil, who puts forth, as a parasite, tendrils by which to cling, not knowing to what - to a supporter or a destroyer. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

How we live as leaders matters. — Michael Hyatt

I pretended it was nothing. That day I told you about my baby, and why I had had an abortion. It would have damaged other lives. I had killed my own real baby ten years before, but it remains my living child, and will always be so. It is worse when there is no grave. I wanted you to recognize its existence. No one else does, and that is what I cannot bear. (12) — Sarah Ferguson

There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare. — Sam Walter Foss

Exceptional estimable, good, nice, dear people they all were but they all, unluckily, kept asking me about the new novel, and that was excrutiating. — Robert Walser

Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency. — Chino XL

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

We have to try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes. We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down. This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone. And if we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life. — Joshua Radin