Nz187 Quotes & Sayings

When we plot the happiness of another, we unconsciously impute to the other person what is in another form the dream in which our own happiness is fulfilled. Thus by not thinking of our own happiness we make it possible for ourselves to become egotistic. — Yukio Mishima

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into Hell. — Troy Lambert

My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when I was going to first grade. She said, "You're Bahamian and African-American on one side, and Russian-Jewish on the other. You're no more one than the other, and it's beautiful that you have all this. It makes your life all the more rich. But society will see you only as black." — Lenny Kravitz

I think with the needs to feed the world's population, to end starvation, plant sciences offer great opportunities to do good and also to develop industry in St. Louis. — William Henry Danforth

(According to The New York Times, "the top 20 service contractors have spent nearly $300 million since 2000 on lobbying and have donated $23 million to political campaigns." The Bush administration, in turn, increased the amount spent on contractors by roughly $200 billion between 2000 and 2006.) — Naomi Klein

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them. — Sophocles

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going. — Nido R. Qubein

Clementine was thankful her husband understood his mother so thoroughly. She couldn't imagine how difficult it would be if Ralph was one of those men who suffered from an excess of mother-worship. — Tessa Arlen

Audiences have kept me alive. — Judy Garland

I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.' — Aaron Douglas

Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it. — Adrian Ballinger

This is no dream
just my oily life
where the people are alibis
and the street is unfindable for an
entire lifetime. — Anne Sexton

You think looting is bad in Egypt, look at Peru, India, China. I've been told in China there are over a quarter-million archaeological sites, and most have been looted. This is a global problem of massive proportions, and we don't know the scale. — Sarah Parcak

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick. — Mary Wilson Little