Overbodig English Quotes & Sayings

But by not even asking, we are rejecting ourselves by default - and probably missing out on opportunity as a result. A 2011 — Jia Jiang

As death approaches, memory erodes. Recent memories are the first to succumb. Death works its way backward until it reaches memory's earliest beginnings. Then memory flares up for an instant, just like a flame about to go out. That is the 'prayer in the mother tongue.'"

-from "A Prayer in the Mother Tongue — Yasunari Kawabata

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus — Robert Galbraith

I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time? — Elizabeth Gilbert

Ever since Katrina, there has been a proliferation of efforts at the state level and among hospital administrators to come up with guidelines that would help professionals stuck in a situation like this to prioritize patients. These are questions of values much more than they are of medicine or nursing. They're the province of everybody. — Sheri Fink

In infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differentiated,is to say nothing at all. Those are all words with no meaning, for in the infinite is neither complex nor simple, no forward nor backward, or better or worse. — Leo Tolstoy

It was like crawling into the asshole of Satan. — James Patterson