Lmansi Quotes & Sayings

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics. — Rene Descartes

Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own. — Marguerite Kelly

The world's default mode is basic indifference. It'd like to care, but it's just got too much on at the moment. — David Mitchell

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception. — Raphael Soyer

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth — Saadat Hasan Manto

In a good play, everyone is in the right. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel

I did Wall Street, and then everything that happened with An Education took me up until March. I didn't want to work during that because there was just so much stuff. I didn't realize you had to go to so many parties. It was a nightmare! I had to go to all these parties! The glamour! — Carey Mulligan

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world. — Rose Kennedy

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy. — Aeschylus

I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests. — James Fenimore Cooper

Ask them, then ... Ask them when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask them when their engines stop. Ask them, when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You want to know something? They won't want us to ask them. They'll just want us to get it. — James Grady

While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it. — Alexandra Adornetto

All happy mornings resemble one another, as do all unhappy mornings, and that's at the bottom of what makes them so deeply unhappy: the feeling that this unhappiness has happened before, that efforts to avoid it will at best reinforce it, and probably even exacerbate it, that the universe is, for whatever inconceivable, unnecessary, and unjust reason, conspiring against the innocent sequence of clothes, breakfast, teeth and egregious cowlicks, backpacks, shoes, jackets, goodbye. Jacob — Jonathan Safran Foer

As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping. — Jose Saramago

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy. — Joni Mitchell