Gadsimti Quotes & Sayings

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. — Daisaku Ikeda

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded. — David Hume

Parvaneh's belly is now so big that she looks like a giant tortoise when she heaves herself down into a squatting position, one hand on the gravestone and the other hooked around Patrick's arm. Not that Ove dares bring up the giant tortoise metaphor, of course. There are more pleasant ways of killing oneself, he feels. — Fredrik Backman

Life would have been easier if he'd never taught her to believe in heroes by handing her those cookies that day, but it wouldn't have been nearly as magnificent either. — Kele Moon

Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world. — Bernie Sanders

To me, what constitutes a family are those who you choose to make your family. Whether they're related through bloodlines or only timelines, they're the people — Charles Dennis

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. — Robert Rodriguez

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place ... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history. — Bell Hooks

It was better to know the worst than to wonder. — Margaret Mitchell

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. — Okakura Kakuzo

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life. — Ben Okri

Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach. — William Wordsworth

The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round,
Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound,
Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam,
Our arms are waving, our lips are apart ... — William Butler Yeats

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld