Philosopher Quotations Quotes & Sayings

It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but then, back then, in with all the cuts and scrapes (her knees had scabs on top of scabs) she had had a feeling of achievement. She was learning something, doing something she had not known how to do. Now she felt nothing but cold loss. She had failed the ghost children. She had failed her parents. She had failed herself, failed everything. — Neil Gaiman

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. — Paul Tillich

No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world. — Kevin DeYoung

Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might; — Abigail Thomas

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings. — Shirley Williams

Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says. — Karl Pilkington

It's like you're my own personal brand of heroin — Stephenie Meyer

What we are doing in the United States is we have launched a television station for mainstream audiences, which means whether they are native Americans or people living from any part of the world. — Subhash Chandra

You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles. — Rick Scott

Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist. — Abhijit Naskar

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it,
feel it, and hate in silence. — Washington Allston

She didn't want to change just to be better. Though there was always better to aspire for. It was very confused. — Greg Bear

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby? — Thurgood Marshall

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don't know how Jesus does it — Bono

I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to visit you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty ... You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. I shall remember how you thrust me back ... into the red-room ... And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me - knocked me down for nothing. I will tell anybody who asks me questions this exact tale. 'Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt. It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped-for liberty ... — Charlotte Bronte

Jan had never seen a really sumptuous establishment like Lancut, but he had worked often at Castle Gorka and could see the vast difference between how a count lived, with his fifty horses and forty servants, and how his peasants lived, with meat once a year, a new suit of clothes once every ten years, little medicine and less education. — James A. Michener