Paragraphers Quotes & Sayings

Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love. — David Levithan

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented. — Henry David Thoreau

You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost. Mark my words: as soon as the bones mend, you will forget about the fracture. — Haruki Murakami

Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

He gave me exactly what I wanted, and it made me blind — Victoria Aveyard

George Jessel's newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town's paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka. — Lucius Beebe

Civil disobedience was new to Lancre, but its inhabitants had already mastered some of its more elementary manifestations, viz, the jerking of rakes and sickles in the air with simple up-and-down motions accompanied by grimaces and cries of "Gerrh!," although a few citizens, who hadn't quite grasped the idea, were waving flags and cheering. Advanced students were already eyeing the more combustible buildings inside the walls. Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere* and were doing a brisk trade. Pretty soon someone was going to throw something. — Terry Pratchett

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures. — Nelson Rodrigues

Just when the womb gets too old for babies, Sarai gets pregnant. Just when the failure is too great for grace, David is pardoned. And just when the road is too dark for Mary and Mary, the angel glows and the Savior shows and the two women will never be the same. The lesson? Three words. Don't give up. — Max Lucado

The answer to our prayer of how to meet our children's needs may be to more often technologically disconnect. Precious moments of opportunity to interact and converse with our children dissolve when we are occupied with distractions. Why not choose a time each day to disconnect from technology and reconnect with each other? Simply turn everything off. When you do this, your home may seem quiet at first; you may even feel at a loss as to what to do or say. Then, as you give full attention to your children, a conversation will begin, and you can enjoy listening to each other. — Rosemary M. Wixom

Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you — Carl Sagan

It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing. — Alan Sugar

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it. — George Orwell

An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program. — Linus Torvalds

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. — Michael Rostovtzeff