Laumans Quotes & Sayings

Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself; and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your cherishing to them anyway. — Dalai Lama

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. — Seneca.

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware — Paul Tillich

The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adaptable cloth by his power of endurance and in his capacity for detachment. The fact seems to be that the play of his destiny is too great for his fears and too mysterious for his understanding. Were the trump of the Last Judgement to sound suddenly on a working day the musician at his piano would go on with his performance of Beethoven's Sonata and the cobbler at his stall stick to his last in undisturbed confidence in the virtues of the leather. And with perfect propriety. For what are we to let ourselves be disturbed by an angel's vengeful music too mighty for our ears and too awful for our terrors ? Thus it happens to us to be struck suddenly by the lightning of wrath. The reader will go on reading if the book pleases him and the critic will go on criticizing with that faculty of detachment born perhaps from a sense of infinite littleness and wich is yet the only faculty that seems to assimilate man to the immortal gods. — Joseph Conrad

Life is better when you have someone worth waiting for. — Lexi Whitlow

I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.
I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.
I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.
I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood. — Richelle E. Goodrich

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. — George Orwell

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished. — Thomas Paine

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore. — Etta James

All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes. — Otto E. Neugebauer

For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few alternatives available. Readers who loved Tolkien, and who were not satisfied by Terry Brooks, had nowhere else to turn. — Stephen R. Donaldson

I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see. — David Duchovny

A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything. — Lindsey Davis

I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good enough to get in, they were good enough to learn a new instrument. They felt sorry for pianists being alone in the practice room all the time, and they really wanted to socialize us pianists. — Zeena Parkins