Joistar Quotes & Sayings

Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical. — Wadah Khanfar

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. — Luc De Clapiers

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. — Plutarch

That's the thing I hate most about my brain, the way it stores and catalogs things, all this dumb shit on a giant hard drive in my head, so I'm forced to obsess over it all like a crazy person. — Matthew Norman

An opportunity lost may have motivated us to find a satisfying alternative. Adversity or suffering may have taught us certain important skills. Some writers have felt new appreciation for their lives after surviving a serious illness or disability. A fortunate outcome does not invalidate the unfortunate aspect. — Nan Merrick Phifer

Figure out. Fight. — Waseem Latif

I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin. — Ray Lamontagne

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. — Reif Larsen

What woman wants to hear someone say what her husband is thinking? What guy is going to be happy hearing what's on his wife's mind? — John Irving

I have in all honesty believed that two people with similar names must have similar characters, that an unfamiliar word - be it Turkish or foreign - must be semantically similar to a word spelt like it, that the soul of a dimpled woman must carry something of the soul of another dimpled woman i knew before, that all fat people are the same, that all poor people belong to a fraternity about which i know nothing, that there must be a link between peas and Brazil - not just because Brazil is Breziliya in Turkish and the word for pea is bezelye but also because the Brazilian flag has, it seems, an enormous pea on it ... — Orhan Pamuk

These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

Love always finds its way, but if you love someone just say... — Deepanshu Saini

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken. — Michael Lewis

Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory — C.S. Lewis