Nonsaturable Quotes & Sayings

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others." — Samuel Johnson

There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them. — Frederick Lenz

Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with every given context, and engender infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion. This does not suppose that the mark is valid outside its context, but on the contrary that there are only contexts without any center of absolute anchoring. This citationality, duplication, or duplicity, this iterability of the mark is not an accident or anomaly, but is that (normal/abnormal) without which a mark could no longer even have a so-called "normal" functioning. What would a mark be that one could not cite? And whose origin could not be lost on the way? — Jacques Derrida

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. — Gene Robinson

The past is our very being. — David Ben-Gurion

Paul lay awake for a long time, just listening to her breathe, drinking in her scent. Holding her like this, naked against him, it was like a miracle. You don't just go to sleep on miracles. You savor them, give thanks for them. It — Robyn Carr

Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God. — Mother Teresa

Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles. — Jim Rohn

What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death. — William Shakespeare