Lifes Bumps Quotes & Sayings

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. — Salvatore Quasimodo

Centrum Permanebit"
The Center Will Hold — Richelle Mead

I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances. — Emily Saliers

I didn't understand the living fascination with a world of perfected dead. — Darin Bradley

I want you to think about this for a minute. What would you rather have? Words that can be spoken lightly and then taken back so easily, would you rather actions? — Katie Ashley

Speak well of the sun, but know that it can harm you;
when enraged, it is pitiless. Speak well of the ocean, but know that it can injure you; when angry, it is merciless. Speak well of the wind, but know that it can wound you; when provoked, it is ruthless. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The table. That Saukerl, that filthy pig - you call him Papa, verstehst? Understand? — Markus Zusak

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world. — Janet Gonzalez-Mena

No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be. — Albert Einstein

For Montaigne, the death of youth, which so often takes place unnoticed is the harder death; what we habitually refer to as 'death' is no more than the death of old age ... The leap from the attenuated survival of senescence into nonexistence is much easier than the sly transition from heedless youth crabbed and regretful age. — Julian Barnes

The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat. — St. Jerome

Be the author of your destiny. — Lailah Gifty Akita

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer. — Leonard Woolf

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget. — Susan Brooks