Givewho Quotes & Sayings

Still now I send letters into space
Hoping that some mailman somewhere will track you down
And recognise you from the descriptions in my poems
That he will place the stack of them in your hands and tell you,
There is a girl who still writes you, she doesn't know how not to — Sarah Kay

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. — Anais Nin

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again. — Ray Bradbury

(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect. — Thomas Carlyle

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him. — Enos Slaughter

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will. — Lord Chesterfield

Those who like tranquility and dislike clamor tend to avoid people to seek quietude. They do not know that when one wishes there were no one around, that is egotism; and when the mind is attached to quietude, that is the root of disturbance. How can they reach the state where others and oneself are seen as one, where disturbance and quietude are both forgotten. — Zicheng Hong

I like criticism, but it must be my way. — Mark Twain

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. — Stephen Jay Gould

What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity — Anne Bradstreet

But imagining what might happen if one's circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness. Sitting — Amor Towles

In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. "Deserves" is not the point. And "owes" is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is, that in the right hands, everything that you give, you get. — Amy Bloom

Life is meant to be lived in 'the zone', not the stands. — Orrin Woodward

People come into your life and people leave it ... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you. — Orlando Bloom

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart! — Richard Flecknoe