Officewerks Quotes & Sayings

Why I, in this weak piping time of piece,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to see my shadow in the sun
And descant on my own deformity :
... — William Shakespeare

The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements. — Gilbert Ryle

Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a spectator of feminine grace that women themselves may not be able to see. — William T. Vollmann

There are no more sympathetic souls than strangers. So, — Amor Towles

Whenever we'd pass a penny on the sidewalk, Matt wouldn't touch it. 'Let someone else have a lucky day,' he'd say. — Sarah Ockler

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her. — Henry Parry Liddon

We must praise God or live in unreality and poverty. We cannot merely believe in our minds that he is loving or wise or great. We must praise him for those things - and praise him to others - if we are to move beyond abstract knowledge to heart-changing engagement. — Timothy Keller

If the Internet were everything it is cracked up to be, we would all stay at home and be brilliantly witty and insightful. Yet with so much contradictory information available, there is more reason to travel than ever before: to look closer, to dig deeper, to sort the authentic from the fake; to verify, to smell, to touch, to taste, to hear and sometimes - importantly - to suffer the effects of this curiosity. — Paul Theroux

In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in. — Charles Martin