Pedometer Watch Quotes & Sayings

But, even granted that doubts, raised in the course of time against the tenants of the Christian faith, have long since robbed you of faith in the immortality of your spirit, you have nevertheless left one tenant undisturbed, and still ingenuously adhere to the one truth, that the spirit is your better part, and that the spiritual has greater claims on you than anything else — Max Stirner

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader. — Morris Gleitzman

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that. — Lara Flynn Boyle

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. — H.L. Mencken

Art is the stored honey of the human soul. — Theodore Dreiser

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind ... — Edward Gibbon

We are not bound by commandments but by loyalties, and we have more loyalties than can be covered by fiat. We have to weigh their conflicting values for ourselves, on this occasion and on that, once in this favor and once in that, in the natural day to day of our conduct. In a complex and many-sided culture, we have to develop our ethic in our own actions, now within one group and now within another. Perhaps this group or that may have a book of rules for its members, but there can be no book to balance for any one of us, once for all, the loyalties that bind him to a dozen groups. — Jacob Bronowski

Why such haste? For a foolish hope? Why did his heart always insist on believing that there was a light in all the darkness? — Cornelia Funke