Lektema Quotes & Sayings

Feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn't it? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your brain happening right now. And if that's happening now, what's actually happening right now isn't really happening for you at all. This is what it is meant when people say, live in the present. — Dan Pearce

I don't play to sweat, I play to win. — Kevin Garnett

There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here.
He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes me want to let him open doors for me.
There's only one of him. — Rainbow Rowell

Jesus did not spend the same amount of time with everyone. He chose twelve and spent a majority of his time with them. There were toxic people that he spent hardly any time with. For example, the Pharisees were against him from the outset of his ministry. He engaged them only when he needed to. Most of his time he poured himself into a small circle of disciples. — Rick Brown

The hearts letter is read in the eyes. — George Herbert

I wanted to get from 4th street to 8th ... Then I remembered Einstein postulating that parallel lines eventually meet. They're dredging my car from Lake Michigan as we speak. — Emo Philips

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us. — Zadie Smith

The thing about 'Star Trek' is that it is not judgmental. You can do what ever you want, within reason. — Marina Sirtis

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on. — Anton Yelchin

I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit ... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park
Central Park is a much safer place. — John Thune

An idle mind is a devil's workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder. — Anurag Shourie

The truest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

[M]aterialism clearly poses a bit of a problem for a central tenet of the justice system - namely, that people exert free will in their actions, including their criminal actions. If actions are merely the inevitable consequences of hard-wired brain circuitry - or, pushing the chain of causation back a step, of the genes we inherit from our parents - then the concept of genuine moral culpability becomes untenable. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz