Journalizing Closing Quotes & Sayings

Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ... If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?" — Stephen Levine

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She. — H. Rider Haggard

To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics. — Karen Marie Moning

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption. — Al Sharpton

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity. — Jehane Noujaim

Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited! — Peter Cosgrove

I'm more comfortable in heels than I am in sneakers. — Shay Mitchell

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock and roll. — Joan Jett

I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him. — Thomas Moore

The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough. — George Osborne

There is always something new out of Africa. — Pliny The Elder