Originaria Quotes & Sayings

I'm a word freak. I like words. I've always compared writing to music. That's the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it's like music. — Hunter S. Thompson

A nice-looking boy pays attention, says the right things, looks at you just a certain way. You're not smart anymore. — J.D. Robb

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends. — Alain De Botton

Think of trying to balance a pencil vertically on its tip. No matter how we try to balance the pencil, it usually falls down. In fact, it requires a fine-tuning of great precision to start the pencil balanced just right so it doesn't fall over. Now try to balance the pencil on its tip so that it stays vertical not just for one second but for years! You see the enormous fine-tuning that is involved to get Omega to be 0.1 today. The slightest error in fine-tuning Omega would have created Omega vastly different from 1. So why is Omega so close to 1 day, when by rights it should be astronomically different? — Michio Kaku

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness. — Samuel Johnson

Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me. — Octavia E. Butler

The road was icy as it was, but Rudy put on the extra coat, barely able to contain a grin. It ran across his face like a skid. — Markus Zusak

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within. — Benjamin Franklin

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous. — Jennifer Saunders

The signs have been everywhere. The changing temperatures. The rising tides. The melting glaciers. Deforestation, pollution, and voracious, unsustainable consumption. We are killing our home. — B.C. Chase

Without prayer there is no inward peace. — Mahatma Gandhi