Graduation Slide Quotes & Sayings

It is deeps such as these that we have beneath our keel after putting out to sea from the Philippines: the world of mystery, of the fathomless, the irrational. If the ocean surface, in savagery and rebellion, in calm and storm, resembles human feelings - that sea on which we sail our little ships of reason and consciousness, in the violent but known world of the emotions - then the great deeps, the ocean's dark abysses, resemble the human heart's unknown, never-visited worlds: the inscrutable, inaccessible, night-dark, soundless underworld of the soul. — Jens Bjorneboe

Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them. — Jeremy Renner

Sometimes, in the ancient writing samples found in the Indian subcontinent, we find that a mixture of Harappan and Brahmi features has been used. This definitely points towards a continuous evolutionary process that transformed the Harappan script into the later day Brahmi. This also explains why many of the Harappan signs seem to have been simply carried forward (even in actual form) in the Brahmi script. — Subhajit Ganguly

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs. — John Quincy Adams

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves. — Robert Kiyosaki

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum. — Tim Hunt

Levin lost all sense of time, and could not have told whether it was late or early now. A change began to come over his work, which gave him immense satisfaction. In the midst of his toil there were moments during which he forgot what he was doing, and it came all easy to him, and at those same moments his row was almost as smooth and well cut as Tit's. — Leo Tolstoy

Let's not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We'll have a tiny bit of it, I said. — Miriam Toews

Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime. — Frederick Lenz

You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say 'God is love,' they will claim that you are taking things out of context! — Dan Barker

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it. — Phil McGraw

He treated the stars as though they were love songs written to him by God. — Pat Conroy

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. — Sallust