Emitted From Most Manufactured Quotes & Sayings

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature ... — Edward Gibbon

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray. — Samuel Chadwick

My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke of the plastic wheel, my father would accidentally beat me at Candy Land, I would fly into fits of bawling that I'm told would last for hours. If I couldn't triumph, I didn't want to play. — Koren Zailckas

Turn off the light to enter into the darkness and enlighten the world with the lights of your being. — Debasish Mridha

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won't work. We will never work. — Abbi Glines

You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech. — Ken Weber

His name was Mr. Quan and he was the concierge, which explained the black suit and the lavender shirt but not the oversized bow tie in chrome-yellow silk. Perhaps nothing could. — Carsten Stroud

The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three. — Edward Zigler

When I thought of the past, it often seemed to me that all this was merely a horrible dream. My only desire was to forget everything, to think of nothing. — Miklos Nyiszli

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. — George Orwell

Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. — Sigmund Freud

He was only one of those young men who cannot support the burden of consciousness unless they are doing something, and whose conceptions of doing something are limited to a game of some kind. — G.K. Chesterton

A wish is just words. Belief is the catalyst. It's what sets that wish into motion. — Jodi Picoult

I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing. — Agnes Varda