Levius Quotes & Sayings

Too often we take blessings for granted, like the sun, the air, health, and opportunity. Or we accept favors, honors, and privileges day after day as did the lepers their newfound health, without a word of thanks. We would thank the person who gives us a seat in the bus, the person who offers a ride, the friend who picks up the check after dinner, the person who does the baby-sitting, or the boy who cuts our lawn, but do we express gratitude to Him who gives us all? — Spencer W. Kimball

The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane. — Frederick Lenz

It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it. — Jan Hammer

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them. — Patrick Ness

If I spent all my time fearing the things I should, I'd never stop screaming. — Jessica Shirvington

I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy. — Blake Lively

Whenever I go past McDonalds I get very, very angry. — Steven Morrissey

No one has an obligation to love anyone else, but we are all under an obligation to respect each other. According to this logic, Saramago considered — Jose Saramago

It's only a heartache. It isn't a tragedy. A tragedy would be losing the father of my children to cancer. This I wrestle with the hardest. There are thirty-one flavors of pain, like Baskin Robbins in hell. Am I allowed to feel pain at a breakup? When there is so much other shit going on in this world? Love is extremely serious. I don't think this is trivial. — Emma Forrest

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world. — Virginia Postrel

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever. — Erma Bombeck

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas") — Horace

My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong. Had I died, it would have been self-destruction. — Jane Austen

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes. — Jim Hightower