Illumind Quotes & Sayings

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies. — Thomas Jefferson

While you're hating your life just because you can't get what you
want, someone is praying to have a life like yours. — Thabang Gideon Magaola

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto. — Walter Kohn

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. — Isabel Allende

The most dangerous risk in life is to risk nothing — Matthew Armstrong

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people. — Harrison Ford

I'm on the verge of taking a stand. — Tom Hollander

I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one. — Meryl Sawyer

I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent. — Holliday Grainger

Success means nothing unless you have someone to share it with. — J.A. Konrath

These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings. — John Locke

The deep, pure blue stirs on one's lips a smile, innocent as itself; like the clouds over the sky, and, as it were, with them, happy memories pass in slow procession over the soul — Ivan Turgenev

If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you. — J.K. Rowling

Frederick Douglass saw the same connection. When his master heard that young Frederick was reading well, he was furious, saying, "Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. If he learns to read the Bible it will forever unfit him to be a slave." Douglass recalled that he "instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom. — Fareed Zakaria