Imprevisible Def Quotes & Sayings

For Augustine, that's the crucial change. Knowledge is not enough for tranquillity and goodness, because it doesn't contain the motivation to be good. Only love impels action. We don't become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves. — David Brooks

Homes, Gamache knew, were a self portrait. A person's choice of color, furnishing, pictures, every touch revealed the individual. God, or the devil, was in the details. And so was the human. Was it dirty, messy, obsessively clean? Were the decorations chosen to impress, or were they a hodgepodge of personal history? Was the space cluttered or clear? He felt a thrill every time he entered a home during an investigation. — Louise Penny

Can't you try>? However useless the effort may seem to you to be, have you anything better to do with your life? Have you some worthier goal? Have you a purpose that will justify you in your own eyes to some greater extent? — Isaac Asimov

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white. — Irving Berlin

I get very nervous in un-trodden territory but it's important to keep doing it just to prove to myself that I can do it. — Yasmin Paige

Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves. — Laozi

Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. — James Baldwin

Together, we will make America great again. — Mike Pence

You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide. — Will Arnett

I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats. — Billy Collins