Janamia Quotes & Sayings

Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from citizens. — Baruch Spinoza

A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage. — Candice Swanepoel

When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago. — Richard House

In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine" that measures a company's true value. — Brad Stone

Before and after ... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Open the windows and the doors, she shouted, cook some meat and fish, buy the largest turtles around, let strangers come in and spread their mats in the corners and urinate in the rose bushes and sit down to eat as many times as they want, and belch and rant and muddy everything with their boots, and let them do whatever they want to us, because that's the only way to drive off ruin. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But stars can explode, disappear. Besides, what we see when we look at them may no longer be there. Some could have died thousands of years ago and we're just now getting their light. Old information looking like news. — Toni Morrison

We [climbers] demonstrate in the most stunning way of all - at the risk of our lives - that there is no limit to the effort man can demand of himself. This quality is the basis of all human achievementit can never be proved enough. I consider that we climbers - that I - serve all humanity. We prove that there is no limit to what man can do. — Walter Bonatti

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way. — Edwidge Danticat

Knowledge is not rooted in facts; it is rooted in curiosity. One inspired teacher can alter a student for life by instilling curiosity. — Deepak Chopra

Not worthy! Why, the whole world is nothing to me compared with her. — Oscar Wilde

And I understood then that I was a fool when I told you I would take my turn in singing the honours of Love, and admitted I was terribly clever in love affairs, whereas it seems I really had no idea how a eulogy ought to be made. For I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth. — Plato

Take a child away from a mother and she will bring the world to its knees for justice to be served. — Soroosh Shahrivar

Human nature is seldom at a loss to find or create an excuse for pursuing the predominant bias of inclination. — Helen Craik

Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU. — Mandy Hale