Mottetus Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes he wondered if man's instincts had changed in that time and always concluded that they hadn't. At least in the basic, most primal ways. As far as he could tell, man had always been aggressive, always striving to dominate, trying to control the world and everything in it. — Nicholas Sparks

You people have no imagination! — C.S. Lewis

We love you, too, Jake, and if it's drugs or whatever it is, we don't care. We'll get you right again. Like I said your confused."
"No, dad. I'm peculiar." Then I hung up the phone, using a language I didn't know I knew, I ordered the hollow to stand.
Obedient as a shadow, it did. — Ransom Riggs

I've discovered that you can't change people. They can change
themselves. — Jim Rohn

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds. — Nelly Furtado

This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed. — Slavoj Zizek

I can sit underneath the shed with all my family, my cousins, and everything, and just be like, "Yeah, this is what it's about - just sitting with people you love and hanging out." — Channing Tatum

If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it. — Mary Ruefle

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own. — Derren Brown

I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? — Jeanette Winterson

history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true. We only hear the stories the victor wants told. The remaining stories, the plights, justifications and heroics of the losers are gone with time. Ours is such a history. We are stronger, yet rarely — H.K. Savage

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival. — Chris Murray

Denial is a powerful weapon. My dad taught me mind over matter. No matter how hurt I got, he didn't mind. — Christopher Titus