Freedfom Quotes & Sayings

Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable. — Maggie Stiefvater

Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn. — John Wesley

It is our belief that the Russians are the worst propagandists, the worst public relations people, in the world. Let us take the example of the foreign correspondents. Usually a newspaperman goes to Moscow full of good will and a desire to understand what he sees. He promptly finds himself inhibited and not able to do the work of a newspaperman. Gradually he begins to turn in mood, and gradually he begins to hate the system, not as a system, but simply because it keeps him from doing his work. There is no quicker way of turning a man against anything. And this newspaperman usually ends up nervous and mean, because he has not been able to accomplish what he was sent to do. A man who is unable to function in his job usually detests the cause of his failure to function. The Embassy people and the correspondents feel alone, feel cut off; they are island people in the midst of Russia, and it is no wonder that they become lonely and bitter. — John Steinbeck

Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic pursuit of gratification, the real beauty of life comes out. When you seek to know the reality without illusion, complete with all its pain and danger, that is when real freedfom and security are yours. — Henepola Gunaratana

But once you start doubting,it's hard to know what to believe. — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

It is difficult to fill a broken vessel. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We sense that 'normal' isn't coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human. — Charles Eisenstein

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience. — Dean Koontz

I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader. — Taylor Mali

One of their most famous coups was underwriting a $10 million loan for a growing mail-order house called Sears, Roebuck, headed by Goldman's distant relative. It was the first time a mail-order security had ever been on the market-a calculated risk, but one that paid off. — Kenneth L. Fisher

I am a thespian trapped in a man's body. — Tim Allen

American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this. — Kent Hovind

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay. — Christopher Marlowe

Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin. — James Mercer