Felixarchief Quotes & Sayings

I think of what wild animals are in our imaginations. And how they are disappearing - not just from the wild, but from people's everyday lives, replaced by images of themselves in print and on screen. The rarer they get, the fewer meanings animals can have. Eventually rarity is all they are made of. The condor is an icon of extinction. There's little else to it now but being the last of its kind. And in this lies the diminution of the world. How can you love something, how can you fight to protect it, if all it means is loss? — Helen Macdonald

It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation. — Abigail Adams

What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it. — David Einhorn

God wants you to be truthful and humble to yourself and others. He made you good and industrious, but you can't benefit from it if you always stumble on pride. — Stevan V. Nikolic

Anna gave Charles a shy kiss on the cheek and strolled out of the room without a backward glance. Until she reached the doorway, and then, in full view of the curious who'd had the courage or discourtesy to linger in the auditorium after he'd dismissed them, she kissed her palm and blew it to him.
And despite ... or because of their audience, he caught it in one hand, and pulled the hand to his heart. Her smile dropped away, and the expression in her eyes would feed him for a week. And the expressions on the faces of the wolves who knew Charles, or knew his reputation, would make him laugh as soon as no one was watching. — Patricia Briggs

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team. — Mike Krzyzewski

If you don't know what you want to fill your life with, there's a good chance you're going to fill it with everything that you don't - — Josh James Riebock

Because you think your language is the best language? That because you were born and your parents babbled to you in this tongue, that it is the best language to speak? How small is your mind. — Jeff Wheeler

I have never heard a fisherman say that he loves the sea. — Georges Perros

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated. — Lewis Tappan

To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty. — Sharon G. Flake

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope. — Pope Francis

The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story. — Geza Vermes

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better. — Mitt Romney