Kevin 073972181 Quotes & Sayings

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, 'You're great.' We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun. — John Lennon

Silence is a time of reflection to bring peace and meaning to your life, and to those around you. This deafening quiescence will mean different things to different people but if they listen carefully, they will understand... — Virginia Alison

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong. — Steven Soderbergh

I don't see how sucking the joy out of every aspect of life can be pleasing to anybody's God — Kim Edwards

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic. — Paul Bowles

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing. — Damien Hirst

As long as space endures, as long as sentient beings remain, until then, may I too remain and dispel the miseries of the world. — Dalai Lama XIV

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from. — Carson McCullers

Every time I shot back, What's wrong with living in a dream world? And she'd say, You have to wake up. — Sue Monk Kidd

he felt so sleepy he began to cry again. "What is the matter?" asked the Huge One. "I am sleepy and I have no bed, sir." "But if you are sleepy why don't you just sleep?" said the Huge One. "Shut your eyes and go to sleep. — Marjorie Flack

A result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs.
The Nature of Mathematics — Max Black

...age sixty-eight and still wanting love to exist in a pure column of light, still convinced that it could. — Meg Wolitzer

I am a reader. Yes, I am that, a reader with nagging back pain. — Rabih Alameddine

Our society seems to say that a real man needs and wants nobody. — Stuart Miller