Originals Online Quotes & Sayings

I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases. — Henry David Thoreau

But perhaps that's why we take snaps ... to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness. — Jo Nesbo

You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat. — Josemaria Escriva

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium. — Simone Weil

What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth?. — Andrew Cohen

I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option. — Rachel Vincent

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. — Aldous Huxley

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. — Antoine Rivarol

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books ... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions. — Paul Auster

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris. — Giambattista Valli

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. — Donald Barthelme