Forthy Quotes & Sayings

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her ... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The first time you kissed me?" I say. "That moment when your lips touched mine? You stole a piece of my heart that night — Colleen Hoover

But it's also a human tendency - and a pronounced tendency in America - to become enamored of our tools and lose sight of their place. Think about a couple of the basic functions of any community: educating children and policing the streets. Today we spend huge effort and millions of dollars to bring more technology into the classroom, when the great majority of students in the great majority of circumstances can learn almost all of what they need to know with a supportive family, a pencil, some paper, good books, and a great teacher. The schools that produced Shakespeare and Jefferson and Darwin had some writing materials, some printed books - and that was it. — Eric Greitens

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid. — Donal Logue

The road to greatness is often sought, but if journeyed with kindness, it is sweetly paved. — Tom Althouse

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine. — George Herbert

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties. — John Locke

Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself. — Peter Boghossian

Good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a — Charles Dickens

A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection. — R.C. Sproul

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. — David Levithan

I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging. — J. Tillman

How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?'
'Four.'
'And if the party says that it is not four but five - then how many?'
'Four. — George Orwell

the church, but in memory I go and stand — Norman Vincent Peale

Spinoza's Conjecture:Belief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and most people have a low tolerance for ambiguity.
The scientific principle that a claim is untrue unless proven otherwise runs counter to our natural tendency to accept as true that which we can comprehend quickly. Thus it is that we should reward skepticism and disbelief, and champion those willing to change their mind in the teeth of new evidence. Instead, most social institutions-most notably those in religion, politics, and economics-reward belief in the doctrines of the faith or party or ideology, punish those who challenge the authority of the leaders, and discourage uncertainty and especially skepticism. — Michael Shermer

Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others. — Ta-Nehisi Coates