Jillene And Dante Quotes & Sayings

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie. — Thornton Wilder

To the philosopher, infinity, knowledge, movement, empirical laws, etc., are things just as familiar {as family relations}. And as her dead brother and uncle are present to the peasant woman, thus Plato, Spinoza, etc. are present to the philosopher. The one has as much reality as the other, but the latter are immortal. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself. — Jim Drain

I'm pleased to say that it [ a paper on the history of Attica] got much recognition with a 99 grade. It was shown to the Attica Historical Society, who enthusiastically responded to it and read it at one of their annual meetings resulting in an article in the local newspaper about this excellent paper being presented. As I now look back at it, I think of that as being really my first book and did indicate that I did have interest in research. — Paul Smith

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. — Delphine De Girardin

The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy. — Leonardo DiCaprio

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors. — F.H. Bradley

Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing. — Bernie Siegel

I wanna take it deeper than money, pussy, vacation and influence a generation that's lacking in patience — Drake

Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what. — Nancy Kerrigan

The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle. — Isabel Allende

Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause. — Douglas Adams

Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing. — Bertolt Brecht