Firstly Grammar Quotes & Sayings

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers. — Zadie Smith

I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people. — Philippe Kahn

We were doomed from the start. A lost cause. A losing battle. And yet, in that narrow instant, I didn't give a single fuck. — Julie Johnson

It has served us well, this myth of Christ. — Pope Leo X

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do. — Christopher Gadsden

In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying. — Etgar Keret

A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God. — Brother Lawrence

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity. — Elise M. Boulding

Wrong thinking leads to wrong emotions - discouragement and despair - and wrong thinking consequently leads to giving up. — Jim Berg

Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages. — Christopher Columbus

The Factor concept is very simple: Watch all of those in power, including and especially the media, so they don't injure or exploit the folks, everyday Americans. Never before in the United States had a television news guy dared to criticize other journalists on a regular basis. The late Peter Jennings, a friend, told me I was crazy to do it. "These people will not allow anyone to scrutinize them," he said. "They will come after you with a vengeance." And so they have. — Bill O'Reilly

I would say that children are more resilient than you realize, and that as long as you love them, there is no right way to raise your children. You have to find your own way. It's your way and it's your child. — Al Roker

He could imagine how nice it would be to not understand. To see one's microcosm as the macrocosm. To focus a meter beyond one's own nose. — Hugh Howey