Mutely Laughing Quotes & Sayings

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

All things change. Until we wake, the dream drifts on the wind. — Robert Jordan

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power. — Joshua Micah Marshall

The full moon
reflected in water,
the water
contained in the bowl,
and the thirsty man

deep in sleep. — Abbas Kiarostami

Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men. — Catherine Booth

Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approached. "I mean, if you really think about it. It's confusing. 'Put a Mark on me, Mark. — Cassandra Clare

At these the fellow-passengers laughed, except the solitary boy bearing the key and ticket, who,
regarding the kitten with his saucer eyes, seemed mutely to say: All
laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no
laughable thing under the sun. — Thomas Hardy

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow. — Henning Mankell

When a beautiful road ends, remember how it was to live it over again! When a hard road ends, remember how it was to get a lesson for the future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place. — James Baldwin

It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought. — Studs Terkel

When I follow my heart, usually the results are good. — Renny Harlin

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. — Liu Xiaobo

Oh, please," Della said. "Excuse me while I go and grow a penis so the sausage-and-meatball-toting gender will stop thinking I need a man to protect me. — C.C. Hunter