Nydailynews Quotes & Sayings

When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element — Rabindranath Tagore

I feel like a fox in a henhouse full of Catholic girls. — Cate Tiernan

Learn to fail or fail to learn — Tal Ben-Shahar

Do you want me to swear this time? Yes. Well, crap. — James Patterson

I've been scraping little shavings off my ration of light
And I've formed it into a ball, and each time I pack a bit more onto it
I make a bowl of my hands and I scoop it from its secret cache
Under a loose board in the floor
And I blow across it and I send it to you
Against those moments when
The darkness blows under your door
Isn't that what friends are for? — Bruce Cockburn

True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self. — Eric Liu

A woman wields power to build a home or destroy a home. — Girdhar Joshi

In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos. — Brian Greene

Find out if you're still human, observe yourself from another planet — Benny Bellamacina