Equalizing Ear Quotes & Sayings

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways ... It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being. — John Connolly

He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear. — Benjamin Franklin

Time will always smile at you, even when it's ripping you of the days and nights of your life. — Cameron Jace

I just love math and most people don't. — Danica McKellar

Is there a club for bitchiness management, like Alcoholics Anonymous? Because, seriously, I think you should visit it. — Alexandra Engellmann

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty. — Winston Churchill

Today is half of Yesterday and Tomorrow, Choose Today to make Tomorrow — Yando Wanii Nimbo

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass. — Alexander McQueen

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel De Montaigne

Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses. — Plutarch

Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system. — Josh Fox

I've heard a Buddhist monk suggest the number of food-caused deaths is minimized in steak dinners, which share one death over many meals, whereas the equation is reversed for a bowl of clams. — Barbara Kingsolver

Darkness has its own beauty that you can only see with your inner light. — Debasish Mridha

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul. — John Flavel