Figat7th Quotes & Sayings

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity. — Brigham Young

I want to be an honest man and a good writer. — James Baldwin

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right. — Richard Dawkins

Don't tell the Scandinavians I said this, but "Swedish," "Norwegian," and "Danish" are all really one "language, — John McWhorter

Silence was a thing entrusted to the animals, the girl thought. Many things that human words have harmed are restored again by the silence of animals — Joy Williams

I always found it so ironic, how the people from the past would do anything to see what happened everywhere else in the world that they lost so much of their own life watching this little screen. — Silje Jensen

The nights seem to me too long ... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame. — Louis Pasteur

It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms. — Robert Hamer

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area. — Bill Gates

I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified. — Rosie O'Donnell

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's. — Caroline Myss

I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world. — E. O. Wilson

That's what my music ... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it. — Alan Vega

As a matter of fact, your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive effect", then on their intensity when they hit. In other words, good news is good news first. How good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread those small effects across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news. The same is property in reverse applies to our unhappiness. It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period, rather than have it spread out over a long time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb