Eyond Quotes & Sayings

The daily sight of her is going to be a torment, like God torturing Moses with a glimpse of Zion from the top of Mount Pisgah every single day of his life. — Michael Chabon

Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong. — Shin Kyung-sook

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other. — James Madison

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace. — Richard P. Feynman

Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world. — Robert Kennedy

I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common. — Iris Apfel

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. — Leo Tolstoy

Methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that are invoked to solve it will be helpful in later situations. It has little to do with how useful the answer to the problem may be. On the other hand, a good problem must also motivate the students; they should be interested in seeing the answer. Since students differ so greatly, I cannot expect everyone to like the problems that please me. — Donald Knuth

One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works. — Jacqueline Novogratz

[B]eyond the divisiveness among men there exists a primordial unitive power since we are all bound together by a common humanity more fundamental than any unity of dogma. — Ruth Nanda Anshen

Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy. — Stu Jackson

She didn't answer. Instead, she smiled sweetly. It was a smile so radiant that the air seemed to thin around it. — Haruki Murakami

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time. — Jack Vance

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You know, even though I'm in fashion, I don't, like, do fashion. Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff. I just want to do whatever makes me happy ... Like being totally conscious. Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do. Being with friends, having fun ... being a bit daft. — Agyness Deyn

I just asked them not to volunteer where I was, that's all. I know it was the wrong thing to do, but sometimes - sometimes it doesn't matter. Right, wrong, it's just the thing you have to do. And I had to see you. I had to know you were okay. I'll apologise for basically hovering, but I can't be sorry for being worried about you. I didn't crash your door and demand to see you. I just ... stayed close. -Shane, Fall Of Night — Rachel Caine

We belong to talking, not what talking is about ... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion. — Zygmunt Bauman