Opensubtitles Quotes & Sayings

God seeks comrades and claims love,
The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience. — Rabindranath Tagore

Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics, cranks, and charlatans. — Michio Kaku

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport. — Junior Seau

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love. — Lucinda Williams

Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields
there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze
and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them. — Etty Hillesum

The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself. — Simone Weil

Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes. — Megan McCafferty

It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves. — Frederick Lenz

Good God! To think upon a child
That has no childish ways,
No careless days, No frolics wild,
No words of prayer and praise.
- Land — Bonnie E. Virag

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever. — Lysander Spooner

Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of her humiliation and the despair which possessed her, she still remained in some part of her soul aloof and untouched. It was the hard centre of her being which never altered. Nothing could touch that. — Anna Kavan

Chinese migrants had learned from long experience to expect little of governments, and to rely much on the networks of kinship, culture, and trust. — Anthony Reid

Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past. — David Cottrell

I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness. — Helen Thomas

I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof. — G.H. Hardy