Practicalities Define Quotes & Sayings

The night comes stealing o'er me,
And clouds are on the sea;
While the wavelets rustle before me
With a mystical melody. — Heinrich Heine

The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT. — Robert M. Pirsig

One day there will be no more stars. There will be no more darkness. You see, light isn't the absence of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light. — J.W. Lord

To the World He Was a Loser, But to Me He Was the World. — Chuck Palahniuk

I knew then that my shaky faith in myself was starting to dig a hole in hers, and Emma's confidence was what held everything together. — Ransom Riggs

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the
past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I
just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap. — Townes Van Zandt

I don't realize how badly I've needed to say those words until they've left my mouth. They hang in the air. And all I want now is to be away from them. To leave the truth behind. Because if I can't do anything about it, I certainly don't want to face it. — Lauren DeStefano

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they cannot argue or disprove, they either dismiss me as 'anti-God' and a 'secular humanist' or they start spouting reams of misapplied and irrelevant 'scripture' at me, like good little sheeple and like that will in any way, shape or form prove anything... Which just proves to me that common sense and actual reason doesn't come into it. Only hatred. — Christina Engela

The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s. — John Lewis Gaddis

I want to be your end, but you gotta let it begin. — Colleen Hoover

It took a long time for me to get better, but I did. I got better. But suddenly it's like the last four years never happened, and I'm feeling all the same terrible feelings about myself that I did back then. — Jenny Han

I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale. — Frank Gehry

If we are genuinely interested in our kids spending less time on their devices, we need to curb our own habit of multitasking and resist the temptation to stay in constant contact and check responses. We also need to keep having conversations with our kids about the benefits of taking a break from screen time. — Cindy Pierce