Infortunement Quotes & Sayings

There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things: — Charlotte Bronte

The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time. — Jenna Fischer

Loving-kindness - maitri - toward ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. Maitri means that we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to change ourselves. Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That's the ground, that's what we study, that's what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest. Sometimes — Pema Chodron

All his gentleness, all his kindness, all the bright shining gorgeousness of his love, he had always given to someone else. — Melissa De La Cruz

Prayer by itself is like a diet without protein! Prayer is important to our spiritual growth - but of even greater importance is God's Word, the Bible. — Billy Graham

I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign! — Theophilus London

And the tiresome part of sorrows is that they do not hurt in proportion to their validity and excusability. If we are to be sympathetic, we can remember always that silly suffering hurts just as much as sensible suffering. — Menie Muriel Dowie

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. — Gillian Flynn

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge — David Storey

As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud. — Charles Caleb Colton

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community. — Bode Miller

God will restore the South African economy and He will heal our beautiful land because He is an unchanging and forgiving God. He is the same God who liberated us from decades and decades of racial struggle. Let's come together in one, seek for His forgiveness and admit that we really messed up big time. Let's also pray 'for all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.' His mercies are new every morning. — Euginia Herlihy

Of what I learned at Yale," writes Lewis Lapham, "I learned in what I now remember as one long, wayward conversation in the only all-night restaurant on Chapel Street. The topics under discussion - God, man, existence, Alfred Prufrock's peach - were borrowed from the same anthology of large abstraction that supplied the texts for English 10 or Philosophy 116." The classroom is the grain of sand; it's up to you to make the pearl. — William Deresiewicz

If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done. — Gertrude Lawrence

There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,
now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience. — Henry David Thoreau