Overborrowing Great Quotes & Sayings

He would return in half an hour - or in less. He walked away and I sat there alone, conscious, on the dark dismantled simplified scene, in the deep silence that rests on American towns during the hot season - there was now and then a far cry or a plash in the water, and at intervals the tinkle of the bells of the horse-cars on the long bridge, slow in the suffocating night - of the strange influence, half-sweet, half-sad, that abides in houses uninhabited or about to become so, in places muffled and bereaved, where the unheeded sofas and patient belittered tables seem (like the disconcerted dogs, to whom everything is alike sinister) to recognise the eve of a journey. — Henry James

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living. — Henry David Thoreau

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. — Baltasar Gracian

God permits sin to come into human life, but only on behalf of a greater good - namely, freedom - and God overrules sin wherever it appears to threaten God's greater purpose — Thomas C. Oden

She felt the press of time as keenly as Kai had. She'd already wasted too much of it. Kissing Thorne in the atrium. Hiding in that cabinet. Dodging in and out of corridors like a lost rabbit. — Marissa Meyer

If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)? — Francis Chan

Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change. — Orrin Woodward

The weather, the plants, the animals, and our human survival are all inextricably linked. The natural elements were at war with one another because we abused our ecosystem. Abused our atmosphere. Abused our animals. Abused our fellow man. — Tahereh Mafi

Because you, my dear, of all people know what a magical place a bookshop can be and that everyone needs a little magic in their lives. I — Annie Darling

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. — Mary Wollstonecraft

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie. — Earl Wilson

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. — Indira Gandhi