Evidentally Quotes & Sayings

Lineation can make your break your poems. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes. — Jack Kornfield

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. — Zhuangzi

Even his hair seemed more startled than usual. — Stephanie Perkins

I'm a child because I like peanut butter? — Jodi Ellen Malpas

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy. — Dan Savage

Almost invariably people expected that if you were a good person you shouldn't meet a bad end, that only the deserving are killed and certainly only the deserving are murdered. However well hidden and subtle, there was a sense that a murdered person had somehow asked for it. That's why the shock when someone they knew to be kind and good was a victim. There was a feeling that surely there had been a mistake. — Louise Penny

A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No one has made any real attempt to recover the loves and the laughter of Elizabethan England. The low dark arches, the low strong pillars upon which Shakespeare's temple rests we can all explore and handle. We can all get into his mere tragedy; we can all explore his dungeon and penetrate into his coal-cellar, but we stretch our hands and crane our necks in vain towards that height where the tall turrets of his levity are tossed towards the sky. Perhaps it is right that this should be so; properly understood, comedy is an even grander thing than tragedy. — G.K. Chesterton

Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots. — Mohammad Marandi

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting. — Verner Panton

We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here. — B.W. Powe

A child's dreams should never be discounted, rather uplifted to the stars — Asa Don Brown

Some troubles no one else should have to endure,especially not those you love. — Christopher Paolini

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard