Periodicals Index Quotes & Sayings

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world. — Vance Bourjaily

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer. — Jeremy Bentham

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics. — Mircea Eliade

The most intriguing correlations obtained by the Minnesota study were also among the most unexpected. Social and political attitudes between twins reared apart were just as concordant as those between twins reared together: liberals clustered with liberals, and orthodoxy was twinned with orthodoxy. Religiosity and faith were also strikingly concordant: twins were either both faithful or both nonreligious. Traditionalism, or "willingness to yield to authority," was significantly correlated. So were characteristics such as "assertiveness, drive for leadership, and a taste for attention." Other — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Love is always a choice. — Gary Chapman

You want a piece of all this fabulousness?" He gestured to himself. "Well, my best friend comes along with it. I wouldn't cut you out of my life, Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift."
"Gross," said Clary. "Must you?"
He grinned. "I must. — Cassandra Clare

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated. — Anna Quindlen

I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered.
Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied. — Brandon Mull

I miss you.
Were sweeter words ever texted? — Abby McDonald

To invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know — Francis Bacon

I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur ... It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most ... timeless. — Anne Rivers Siddons

I'd like to hold you in the mountains, like to kiss you by the sea. Take you far, far from here to a place where you feel free. Cause we are safe, we are true, we are going to make it through. Crashing worlds, falling stars, breaking all of who we are- I want infinity with you. — Courtney C. Stevens

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.' — David Brock

The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland. — Mehgan Heaney-Grier