Newsed Community Quotes & Sayings

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love. — Pope Francis

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived. — Criss Jami

I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring about him and worrying because of the complete change that I saw in him. He'd lost his sense of humour and he got aggressive; he wasn't for the world any more, he was just for Yoko. Before that he opened his arms and embraced the world with his wit and humour - afterwards he was a completely different kind of person. — Cynthia Lennon

It's funny how our desires often tend to circle around the whims and fancies of others rather than the self. One school of thought has a convincing explanation that this is because we live in a society that makes us want to be pleasing to others more than the self--a rather selfless trait, so to think. But then there is this other theory which eventually concludes that we do all of this to please no one but the self...because praise and compliments are what the devil thrives on, and we are in no significant way any different. — Priyanka Naik

But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact. — Tony Dungy

We love that which we corrupt. — Kiana Davenport

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory. — Sarah Josepha Hale

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. — Robert South

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar. — Aleksandar Hemon