Literatureand Quotes & Sayings

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. — Edward Coke

My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity. — Amos Tversky

Man cannot contend with the divine. — Cassandra Clare

Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. — Steve Maraboli

Damn deez doilies! — Richard Feynman

Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly. — Lana Wood

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. — Victor Hugo

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. — Rabindranath Tagore

Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun. — Tahereh Mafi

He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that these would remember him, and love him. But he didn't believe they would. From childhood memories he knew how strange and sad it is after a long absence to see a familiar place again, for these unmoving objects have no memory and do not recognize the stirrings of a stranger's heart. — Andrei Platonov

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices. — Morgan Freeman

I've always been curious as to why one man jumps out of a fox-hole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest and his buddy, who sits right there next to him, sits there cowering. My feeling is that the different is tiny between the two. — Stephen Lang