Keyboard Shortcut Double Quotes & Sayings

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life. — Frederick Lenz

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators. — Matt Walsh

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft. — Fede Alvarez

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth. — Edward Abbey

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic. — Stephen King

loneliness is a sign you were in desperate need of yourself — Rupi Kaur

Something of a pattern had started to form and it was ugly. — Jeff Rice

I remember a man throwing me in the air when I was very little. He stands as tall as the sky, and he throws me up so high it feels as though I'm flying. We're both laughing, laughing so much that I could hardly catch a breath, and finally I laugh so hard I wet myself, but that only makes him laugh the louder. I was never afraid when he was throwing me. I knew that he would always be there to catch me. — George R R Martin

But such a life will be higher than mere human nature, because a man
will live thus, not in so far as he is man but in so far as there is in
him a divine Principle: and in proportion as this Principle excels
his composite nature so far does the Working thereof excel that in
accordance with any other kind of Excellence: and therefore, if pure
Intellect, as compared with human nature, is divine, so too will the
life in accordance with it be divine compared with man's ordinary life.
[Sidenote: 1178a] Yet must we not give ear to those who bid one as man
to mind only man's affairs, or as mortal only mortal things; but, so far
as we can, make ourselves like immortals and do all with a view to
living in accordance with the highest Principle in us, for small as it
may be in bulk yet in power and preciousness it far more excels all the
others. — Aristotle.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little. — Natalia Vodianova

It was always just trying to move to the next limit. I didn't think about making the major leagues - every kid has that dream, I had it, but when I was in Little League I just wanted to make the junior high team. When I was in junior high, I wanted to make the Varsity team. — Jim Abbott

As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics. — Tracy Chevalier

I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People who didn't accept the benefit of the doubt. — Emma McLaughlin

In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public. — Edmund Burke