Enfolds Define Quotes & Sayings

Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was. — Kate Elliott

For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened. — Reza Aslan

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! — Samuel Richardson

Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose. — James A. Moore

The fact is, parents and schools and cultures can and do shape people. The most important influence in my life, outside of my family, was my high school journalism teacher, Hattie M. Steinberg. She pounded the fundamentals of journalism into her students
not simply how to write a lead or accurately transcribe a quote but, more important, how to comport yourself in a professional way. She was nearing sixty at the time I had her as my teacher and high school newspaper adviser in the late 1960s. She was the polar opposite of "cool," but we hung around her classroom like it was the malt shop and she was Wolfman Jack. None of us could have articulated it then, but it was because we enjoyed being harangued by her, disciplined by her, and taught by her. She was a woman of clarity and principles in an age of uncertainty. I sit up straight just thinking about her! — Thomas L. Friedman

Dont be sorry for loving someone — S.C. Stephens

It was no big deal. It didn't affect my vision and I could breathe OK. — Maria Cantwell

I really don't have that much interest in stardom. — Tom Verlaine

I don't believe in the wisdom of children, nor in the wisdom of the old. There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of the living. We are never so wise as when we live in the moment. — Paul Kalanithi

If better is possible at what point is good, good enough? — Mark W. Boyer

Don't you see how much you've fucked me up already? You're the only thing I want. I feel like a limb torn from you. Yours, yours, yours. "Don't — Alessandra Hazard

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses. — Joanna Southcott

Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them they're not experienced enough in bed and should read a book or something to learn, or they should try wearing deep-red lipstick and tight skirts to look hot like their best friend once in a while. If Tal hadn't lied to me when he said he loved me, I might not be without a future right now, a sucker who was so chickenshit she allowed herself to believe a false dream from a false god. I'm not sure I ever even liked Tal, much less loved him. — Rachel Cohn

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare

When you see a picture of the ocean, it's cut off at the edges. You know it goes on and on to the right and on and on to the left, but you never really know how it feels to see that until you actually do see it. — Diane Chamberlain