Overreaction Monday Quotes & Sayings

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way. — Jimmy Carr

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. — Henry David Thoreau

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. — Lois McMaster Bujold

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. — Bertha Von Suttner

Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it. — Evan Esar

Only the virtuous man jumps over his shadow. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell? — Abraham Cowley

She slipped so easily into the folds of his life — Emily St. John Mandel

Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design - because somebody super-smart, or some group of academics, came up with the best system ever to do XYZ. Actually, things are often the way they are because of an accident of history. — Leila Janah

I'd be happy doing anything on a film set. — Nick Frost

Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. — Kahlil Gibran

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing. — Todd Phillips

I could taste the salt on her lips, each kiss like a summer wave breaking on an empty beach. — Michael Faudet

Is it very different at home, or on the street, or waiting at the gate to board a flight? I maintain myself on the puppet drug of personal technology. Every touch of a button brings the neural rush of finding something I never knew and never needed to know until it appears at my anxious fingertips, where it remains for a shaky second before disappearing forever. — Don DeLillo