Maile Lei Quotes & Sayings

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are. — Martha Grimes

Part of making life what you wish it to be is eliminating the unnecessary and the undesirable. — Steven Redhead

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it. — Kenneth Tynan

In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe. — Richard Bausch

Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight. — Elton John

Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.
("The Undying Thing") — Barry Pain

Oh yes, I don't deny I married you because I was sorry for you. And then-I found you the best and jolliest and dearest little pal and chum a fellow ever had. Witty-loyal-sweet. You made me believe again in the reality of friendship and love. — L.M. Montgomery

I only see clearly what I remember. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are certain men who, when faced with the choice of dying or doing the impossible, elect to live. This story is written in honor of their kind. — Elleston Trevor

In order for a god to be all-knowing, he must know even the fact of his own omniscience. But can he do this? He may know the totality of facts constituting the world; call this Y. But in order to know that he has mastered Y, he must also know that 'There are no facts unknown to me' - and this is beyond Y.
It seems impossible that a god (or anyone) could ever be sure that nothing exists beyond his ken. It makes no sense to imagine [a god] arriving at this limit, peering beyond it (at what?), and satisfying himself no further facts exist. But without this certainty he cannot be sure of his own omniscience, and so does not know everything.
A theist might argue that his god has created all the facts in existence. But an omniscient god would have to be sure of even this - that he is the sole creator, and that there are no facts unknown to him. And how could he come to this knowledge? — Roland Puccetti

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008. — William J. Clinton

I'm sorry I can't properly introduce myself, but I don't have a name anymore. Hardly any of us do. We lose them like car keys, forget them like anniversaries. — Isaac Marion

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. — Thomas Moore

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise. — Gregory David Roberts