Freshy Quotes & Sayings

They're similar, Cara and Tris, two women sharpened by loss. The difference is that Cara's pain has made her certain of everything, and Tris has guarded her uncertainty, protected it, despite all she's been through. She still approaches everything with a question instead of an answer. It is something I admire about her - something I should probably admire more. For — Veronica Roth

People are clocks who think they wind themselves. — Catherynne M Valente

He created reality around himself, bringing order and peace to a small island of warm firelight and the simple smell of hearth bread cooking. — Robin Hobb

Banks also have to say no to customers. We can't always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client's best interest. — Jamie Dimon

I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World. — Martin Sheen

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Each day, speak as if someone may be listening in and act as if someone could be watching. Do not say it if you do not mean it or know it to be true. Do not do anything privately that would shame you publicly. Good judgment should not cease simply because you think no one will ever know. Everything performed in the darkness is always revealed in the light. The Universe has an uncanny way of laying your life bare. Make sure you can deal with what may eventually be revealed. — Carlos Wallace

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory. — Rudolf Arnheim

From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia but were rather the most realistic policy there is and the most likely to improve the fate of each and every person. — Nicolas Sarkozy

Violence is the instinctive response to fear. — Margaret Millar

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. — William Beveridge

Often I had to explain my reasoning to others. Every time it was exhausting to simplify my logic enough to make it understandable. — Estelle Ryan

When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other. — Adam Thirlwell