Kindlehunt Quotes & Sayings

When you are aggrieved you learn. — James Cook

I was almost always true to you. — Elvis Presley

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE — Tibor Kalman

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder. — Judith Viorst

I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death. — Alice Sebold

Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines. — Darin Strauss

And he saw it in her eyes. Still. The belief that there could be someone other than herself. You, he wanted to shout. You. No one but you. Stupid, stupid girl. — Melina Marchetta

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization. — S.I. Hayakawa

With more than thirty thousand suicides a year, the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. — Craig Johnson

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. — Donald Rumsfeld

My wife and I were invited to have lunch with one of the wealthiest men in the world. He was seventy-five years old. Tears came down his cheeks. "I am the most miserable man in the world," he said. I have everything anyone could ever want. If I want to go anywhere, I have my own yacht or private plane. But down inside I'm miserable and empty." Shortly after, I met another man who preached in a small church nearby. He was vivacious and full of life, and he told us, "I don't have a penny to my name, but I'm the happiest man in the world! — Billy Graham

When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious
to get rid of boundaries, not to create them. — Edward T. Hall