Miriam Quotable Quotes & Sayings

What are you doing?"
"Thinking."
"That sounds dangerous. — Jojo Moyes

You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way ... Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done. — Steven Brust

Never pass up the opportunity to go to the bathroom, and never refuse a breath mint. — Valeri Kathleen Paxton-Steele

I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating. It's very empowering, and I've learned a lot of that from Jay-Shawn Carter-Z, because his approach to life is very internal. It's a very good lesson to learn. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam. — Mahatma Gandhi

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Give me silence, water, hope
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes. — Pablo Neruda

My mom was really cool. She's the one that gave me the mentality about believing in myself and trusting it, that I was always gonna be okay, and that I could do things in a special way. She just pumped me up, you know? — Pete Carroll

To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away. — Victor Hugo

Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't destroyed yet. — Richard Powers

Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. However, industrial meat production - which subjects animals to a life of torture - has escalated the karmic costs beyond reconciliation. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question. — Harold S. Kushner

That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and what between sharks and spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad. — Herman Melville