Extravagence Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonshingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagence goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives, Henle's loops and all. Every glistening egg is a memento mori. — Annie Dillard

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true. — Dallas Willard

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Everyone is replaceable, including me. — Michael Schumacher

One man's priority is another man's extravagence. — Edwina Currie

It cannot be doubted that the world crisis and the suffering and privations of the people resulting from the crisis are in some measure responsible for the dangerous upheavals of which we are the witness. In such periods discontent breeds hatred, and hatred leads to acts of violence and revolution, and often even to war. — Albert Einstein

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. — Lewis B. Smedes

Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories. — J. California Cooper

He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of the difference between himself and others. — W. Somerset Maugham

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes. — Criss Jami

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger — Friedrich Nietzsche

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Because I love you more than any one person should be allowed to love someone. — S.C. Stephens