My Diary 266 Quotes & Sayings

I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now. — John Benjamin Hickey

The ethics of altruism has created the image of the brute, as its answer, in order to make men accept two inhuman tenets: (a) that any concern with one's own interests is evil, regardless of what these interests might be, and (b) that the brute's activities are in fact to one's own interest (which altruism enjoins man to renounce for the sake of his neighbors). For a view of the — Ayn Rand

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way. — Ram Dass

Society is full of varieties, is this possible to make all of them sensitive? Then there will be no politics. — Vikram Roy

For you to be here now, trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and curiously obliging manner to create you. — Bill Bryson

And this is why I was often excluded in girly cliques; you would sooner find me dead than giggle shamelessly for attention at a good looking dude. — R.J. Lewis

Praise and worship shouldn't be a few hour church service entertainment. It should be our heartbeat and should never depart our lips. 'Let us come before him with thanks giving and extol him with music and song' (Psalms 95:2). — Euginia Herlihy

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. — Heywood Broun

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid. — Moby

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. — William Shakespeare

You in trouble? Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he's thinking about how to get out of here if I am. — Holly Black

Royce scanned the interior. "Nobody home," he said at length.

"Wasn't last time either. I'm surprised they haven't tightened security up more."

"Oh yeah, a single break-in after centuries is something to schedule your guards around."

"They'll be kicking themselves tomorrow. — Michael J. Sullivan

good man's example always does instruct the ignorant and lessens their rage, little by little through the ages, until the spirit of the waters is content, — Helen Macdonald

My earliest influences would definitely be my father, just seeing him play in different bands and going to his shows and going to the rehearsals. You know what I'm saying, it was the typical story of a son looking up to his dad. So the years that my father was around, my father was my biggest influence. — Jon Connor