Parsem Quotes & Sayings

Isn't this history, and aren't we a couple of ruins?
Is Carthage Pompeii? is the pillow the bed? is the sun
What glues our heads together? O midnight! O midnight! — Kenneth Koch

The kind of friend who helps you remember which way is up. And who reminds you that sometimes that's the only direction you can go. — Nina Lane

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us. — Margaret Mead

He was commissioned to go east to Nineveh, — Anonymous

But people have their own troubles and tend to forget. One is not all that interesting. Even Hitler is being forgotten at last. — Iris Murdoch

When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go! — Jonathan Brandis

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite. — Anaxagoras

The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts - fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems - all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making. Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die and with the fear gone, all suffering ends. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it, but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work. — Pope Francis

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory — Michel Chossudovsky

I believe it's imperative to bring the light of support and knowledge to patients and families when death is approaching. — Lisa J. Shultz