Nexis Uni Quotes & Sayings

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have. — Felix Dennis

People who are considered scary or odd or even monsters are so often the people that just need love and someone to care for them. — Catherine O'Hara

If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them. But until that day their untiring joys and sorrows must ever be one-half of their fascination. Love with them never grows weary, nor can the circles of the stars tire out their dancing feet. — W.B.Yeats

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them. — Martin Luther

With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard. — Jennifer Gilmore

Americans are wonderfully courteous to strangers, yet indiscriminately shoot kids in schools. They believe they are masters of the world, yet know nothing about what goes on outside their shores. They are people who believe the world stretches from California to Boston and everything outside is the bit they have to bomb to keep the price of oil down. Only one in five Americans hold a passport and the only foreign stories that make their news are floods, famine, and wars, because it makes them feel good to be an American. Feeling good to be American is what they live for. — Brian Reade

The discipline gave me a sense of achievement. Not least, fasting is a test of willpower and, whenever I felt my willpower weakening, I would tell myself that I could eat as much as I wanted after sunset. But then the strange thing was that after fasting all day long, I tended to feel full with just a small snack. — Kristiane Backer

I'm a mean beanbag tosser. — Ryan McPartlin

The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men. — Gautama Buddha

Shamanism explores an area that contemporary Western science knows little about- the mind. — Jonathon Miller Weisberger