Lexicography Immortal Quotes & Sayings

I'd go without food if I could have a flower. — Caryl Churchill

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death. — Blaise Pascal

These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes. — Archilochus

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart. — Martin Luther King Jr.

You know that the nucleus of a time is not
The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind
Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed
As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins
Nor stand there making orotund consolations.
He shares the confusions of intelligence. — Wallace Stevens

Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment — Miley Cyrus

A sense of our inadequacies and failings, a recognition that we could be better people than we usually are, is
one of the forces for moral growth and improvement in our society. An appropriate sense of guilt makes people try to be better. But an
excessive sense of guilt, a tendency to blame ourselves for things which are clearly not our fault, robs us of our self-esteem and
perhaps of our capacity to grow and to act. — Harold S. Kushner

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be. — Henry Ford

I think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage. — Misty Copeland