Everything Is Prewritten Quotes & Sayings

Hence it comes that men so much love noise and stir; hence it comes that the prison is so horrible a punishment; hence it comes that the pleasure of solitude is a thing incomprehensible. And it is in fact the greatest source of happiness in the condition of kings, that men try incessantly to divert them, and to procure for them all kinds of pleasures. — Blaise Pascal

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself. — Emile M. Cioran

When I said it aloud, it sounded terribly creepy, which is why I had said it aloud. — Amanda Hocking

All I can say in my solitude is, May Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one - American, English, Turk - who will help to heal this open sore of the world. — David Livingstone

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things. — Nick Harkaway

When people speak, listen carefully and pay particular attention to what they are not saying. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The solution of the problem lies in seeing it - in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution - just seeing what's there ... — Toni Packer

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss. — Anderson Cooper

Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise. — J.K. Rowling

It's NOT what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you that shapes your future — Jason Vale

Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path. — Harriet Harman

They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge? ... know it is the understanding graven in the heart that makes men wise. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

I shall always remember the next day for one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever had. As we marched forward we caught sight, after a while, of the gleaming golden towers of a monastery in the far distance. Above them, shining superbly in the morning sun, were tremendous walls of ice, and we gradually realised that we were looking at the giant trio Dhaulagiri, Annapurna and Manaslu. — Heinrich Harrer

As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces. — Jan Chipchase