Fortifies Def Quotes & Sayings

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell. — Al-Ghazali

I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run. — Gerry Lindgren

I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me. — Robert Breault

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people. — Reggie McNeal

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire. — Marge Piercy

Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play. — Tim Brown

My mother bore no arms, — Catherine M. Wilson

Her returned in the evening, drier, sharper, a man with a closer kinship with a thorn bush. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer). — George Johnson

Year after year goes by, and nothing gets better. All we do is argue and debate and procrastinate. Any decent idea is amended to ineffectuality by the time it's gone half-way through the various committees it's obliged to pass through. The few people qualified to know what's what are talked to a standstill by ignorant people all around them. — Kazuo Ishiguro

The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass. — Thomas Merton

I've got a war in my mind — Lana Del Rey

My heart is yours. Yours to celebrate, worship, possess, cradle; yours to shatter, lock away, use, own. Your definition of love is yours, as is my heart. — Steven Budden

Every man, however wise, who begins by worshipping success, must end in mere mediocrity. This strange and paradoxical fate is involved, not in the individual, but in the philosophy, in the point of view. It is not the folly of the man which brings about this necessary fall; it is his wisdom. — G.K. Chesterton