Fortadd Quotes & Sayings

We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry. — Francoise Sagan

When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary. — Stephen Covey

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. — Douglas Adams

When someone joins a party, it is usually because he has perceived, in the activities and propaganda of this party, a number of things that appeared to him just and good. Still, he has probably never studied the position of the party on all the problems of public life. When joining the party, he therefore also endorses a number of positions which he does not know. In fact, he submits his thinking to the authority of the party. As, later on, little by little, he begins to learn these positions, he will accept them without further examination. This — Simone Weil

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg. — Joshua Chamberlain

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity. — James C. Maxwell

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction. — Slavoj Zizek

It's funny how, when you look back on the big things that have happened in your life, you realize that there were small things you might have done which would completely have changed the course of events. — Stuart Prebble

Hold it down until you come up — Johnnie Dent Jr.

and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at everyone, and yet to avoid all eyes. I — F Scott Fitzgerald

Fights take a long time to shoot. — Greg Bryk

Living above your means is financial sin. — Jesse Jackson Jr.

Apathy is just lack of energy, which to me, is just the literal definition of decadence. — Anonymous