I 27ve Learned Quotes & Sayings

The best way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. — Oscar Wilde

Dad always told me that you can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistants. By this measure, Peter Van Houten was possibly the world's douchiest douche. — John Green

Submitting to history allows us to remember our society's past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us striving for an improved future. — K.P. Kollenborn

The rose fell, a brief fragrant blazing meteor before it plummeted to the cold stones, forgotten. — Melinda O'Donnell

He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

A huge meringue with polio who drives everywhere in a beautifully restored Hillman Imp. — St John Morris

Deborah is a great exception to the rule, in a matter of speaking because God chose her to lead Israel. She was the only female judge of Israel which speaks volumes to the fact that God will use anyone who is willing to allow him to lead. — M.S. Kimball

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. — Barack Obama

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. — Vincent Van Gogh

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others. — Honore De Balzac

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do. — Sasha Grey

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac. — Joanna Newsom