Micropoetry Journal Quotes & Sayings

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather. — William Hamilton

As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically. — Antonin Scalia

The consequences of karma are definite: Negative actions always bring about suffering, and positive actions always bring happiness. If you do good, you will have happiness; if you do bad, you yourself suffer. — Dalai Lama XIV

Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever. — Robert X. Cringely

We have always goodly stock in us of that which we condemn: as only similars can be profitably contrasted, so only similar people quarrel, and the bitterest wars are over the slightest variations of purpose or belief. — Will Durant

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography. — Jim Lee

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons. — Criss Jami

Life is also meaningful without being married', she had once told her mother, and marrying merely for the sake of it was, in her view, 'one of the greatest mistakes a woman can make — Helen Rappaport

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? — Philip Sidney

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism? — Frank Harris

This day boldness is manifested in a simple grace: gratitude. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Well, for example, happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad. — Katherine Center

It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience. — Andrew McCarthy

There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [ ... ] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more than that two people have lived together for twenty years just without fighting more often than once a week. — Erich Fromm

I was born with eyes that can never close... — Joy Harjo