Ereferencedesk Quotes & Sayings

We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it. — Melina Marchetta

I'm really focused on, is making sure that, for the broadest number of Americans possible, limited government and free enterprise, the principles that have truly helped build our country into an exceptional one, is one that is being sold to and appeals to the broadest number of Americans. — Marco Rubio

We will not have any more crashes in our time. — John Maynard Keynes

God and heaven can't have you because you're mine and I loved you first. — Kerri Williams

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless. — Joan Of Arc

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me. — Billy Corgan

For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career. — Michael Cerveris

One should never judge anything unless it is known. — Rene Descartes

[Replying to the question of the presenter: "where did the name "Sex Pistols" come from, who thought this name up?"] Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history. — John Lydon

She also knew that the sadness she felt while pregnant, for strangers, for the entire world, did not feel like hormones so much as a kind of elevated consciousness, a heightened sensitivity to truth. — Laura Moriarty

Lady, we're not sleeping, we're resting then we're fucking some more. Last time I'll say it. Not done with you, got things I want to do to you and I'm doin' them. — Kristen Ashley

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won't be able to fulfill. — William B. Irvine

Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio