Explainging Quotes & Sayings

Though far you are near, cheering you on. — Esther Hershenhorn

With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit. — Robert Musil

I learned a lot about my parents, who were both teachers. I had known that my parents were very strongly in favor of education. I had known that they had an impact on a lot of people, but people came out of the woodwork who have said, "You know, without your father, I would never have gone to college," very successful people. And so I learned how widespread their educational evangelism really was. — Condoleezza Rice

Harlin needs you," she whispers. "He loves you too much."
I smile a little. "I know. But I like that about him. — Suzanne Young

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories. — Josef Koudelka

Psychopaths play on the fact that most of us are trusting and forgiving people. The warning signs are always there; it's just difficult to see them because once we trust someone, the friendship becomes a blinder. - The Psychopath Next Door. — Mercy Cortez

After explainging that the Relief Society is one of the oldest and largest women's organizations in the world, he said: People wonder what we do for our women. I will tell you what we do; we get out of their way and look with wonder at what they are accomplishing. — Sheri Dew

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again. — Bob Dylan

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour. — Jeff Bridges

I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career. — Ricky Schroder

Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies; love for those who make us suffer; chastity in every age and situation of life; patience in suffering and when one is shocked by the silence of God in the tragedies of history or of one's own personal existence. You must always be Eucharistic souls in order to be authentic Christians — Pope John Paul II

Like" and "like" and "like"
but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing? — Virginia Woolf

We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary. — Peter Watts

The Tao is like a well; used but never used up. — Laozi