Invocation Examples Quotes & Sayings

Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like that everywhere else. — Lauren Weisberger

The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment. — Pema Chodron

I wouldn't have to drop out of academia and take a more lucrative position waiting tables at the faculty club. — Leonard Mlodinow

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them. — John McWhorter

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot. — Philip Sidney

Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character. — J.C. Ryle

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet. — Will Durant

But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. — John Green

I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break. — McLean Stevenson

Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on our way out if we kick the beggar at the door, where is our devotion? Compassion towards the poor is our duty to God. Mother is not saying that we should give money to every beggar that sits in front of a temple, but do not despise them. Pray for them as well. When we hate others, it is our own mind that becomes impure. Equality of vision is God. — Mata Amritanandamayi

There was no way to compare the feeling of being forgiven to anything else in this world. — Sarah Bruni

When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here. — Andrea Hirata

There's always that one person, That will always have your heart. That one person for me is you. — Usher

Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself. — Ira Sachs

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen. — Lucian Freud