Positing Defined Quotes & Sayings

She had headed towards town aimlessly, looking for the kind of escape that could be found only in a solitary walk through a crowd. — Jade Chang

My job is to make sure we keep performing. — Mats Sundin

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst. — Chuck Palahniuk

All the sadness, all the hurt in the past making this moment all the sweeter. If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose. — Pierce Brown

It will not be easy to let go of your deceased mother, who stands in her kitchen slicing potatoes and roast, who hacks ice from the sidewalk with shovels; she is marrow and bone, a kernel of morals, values, and lessons compacted like some astronomical amount of matter into tablespoons, one with sugar for your cereal, another, for your fever, with a crushed aspirin and orange juice. You love her. You mark time and space by her: she is someone you are always either near to or very far from. — Jill Sisson Quinn

The odds may be stacked against you. Yet, I believe, when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of
purpose, passion, and perseverance, you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and the rest of us. — Charles F. Glassman

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into. — Martina Mcbride

I believe that the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms on the grasslands of Africa gave us the model for all religions to follow. And when, after long centuries of slow forgetting, migration, and climatic change, the knowledge of the mystery was finally lost, we in our anguish traded partnership for dominance, traded harmony with nature for rape of nature, traded poetry for the sophistry of science. In short, we traded our birthright as partners in the drama of the living mind of the planet for the broken pot shards of history, warfare, neurosis, and-if we do not quickly awaken to our predicament-planetary catastrophe. — Terence McKenna

Endeavours to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts. — Jane Austen

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it. — Carol S. Dweck

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. — Boris Pasternak

I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed to be. The people who lived around our flocks seemed to always love everyone around them. Even though they aren't always happy and can't always afford the bills, they are still glad to be alive. — Shannon A. Thompson

Any man,' he says, 'who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world. — Seneca.

Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood that, every year, she must change her leaves, her flowers, her fruit and her vegetables, and make manure out of the mementos of her year! — Jules Renard

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit. — Ethan Zuckerman