Greatest Nephew Quotes & Sayings

It isn't right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first. — Veronica Roth

My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is no reason to be troubled because we are absurd, is there? For we really are: we are absurd, frivolous, we have bad habits, we're bored, we don't know how to look around ourselves, we don't know how to understand, we are all like this, all of us, you, and I, and everyone! And you aren't offended by my telling you straight to your faces that you are absurd? There is the basic stuff of life in your, isn't there? You know, I believe it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous. Yes, much better. People forgive each other more readily and become more humble, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection! To reach perfection there must first be much we do not understand. And if we understand too quickly we will probably not understand very well. I tell this to you who have been able to understand so much and - do not understand.'
p. 577 — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male ... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business. — Jacques Pepin

Why do we need to pray? Because the Christian life is a journey, and we need God's strength and guidance along the way. — Billy Graham

Americans could achieve Jefferson's democratic freedoms through Hamilton's economic development strategies and trade policies. — Patrick Mendis

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I exist for you, Nina. This mortal being so precious to the Creator of the Universe that it allowed for my existence. Tell me that's not incredible. — Jamie McGuire

The schemers in this world eventually plot nothing but their own downfall. — Kaneda Chaplin

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness. — E. M. Bounds

The reward is in the risk. — David Levithan

Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance for knowledge. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation ... these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle. — Dan Brown

Affirmation: I am myself, only I can define myself and I am priceless. — Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

Very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the firs phalange, the mesophalange and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain. [ ... ] It should be noted that fingers are without brains, these develop gradually with the passage of time and with the help of what the eyes see ... That is why the fingers have always excelled at uncovering what is concealed. — Jose Saramago