Obsequiarles Quotes & Sayings

Depression, in Karla's experience, was a dull, inert thing - a toad that squatted wetly on your head until it finally gathered the energy to slither off. The unhappiness she had been living with for the last ten days was a quite different creature. It was frantic and aggressive. It had fists and fangs and hobnailed boots. It didn't sit, it assailed. It hurt her. In the mornings, it slapped her so hard in the face that she reeled as she walked to the bathroom. — Zoe Heller

... for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people. — Jane Austen

The economy is a very sensitive organism. — Hjalmar Schacht

But only one with a gut full of faith can live a sermon on a mountain of pain. — Max Lucado

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. — Walter Pater

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently. — Michel De Montaigne

Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present. — Andrew Mayne

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience. — Terence McKenna

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings. — Jeanette Winterson

With every sunrise, our hearts sing with joy, our minds dance with love, and our lives get energized with new life. — Debasish Mridha

Take the best out of everything and adapt it to your needs. — Sam Walton

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them. — Ramakrishna

Independent Thinking simply means making up your own mind. — Pearl Zhu

But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers. — Mary Balogh