Quietouch Quotes & Sayings

God seeks comrades and claims love,
The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience. — Rabindranath Tagore

Angels began shining when they achieved discipline. — Robert Bly

And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality — Steven D. Levitt

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them — Ernest Gellner

I can never turn my back on a city that made me. — Eminem

Hope had been stripped from me at every minute of every hour of every day for my entire life. — T.M. Frazier

I didn't dare get close to people. I couldn't risk it. — Tahereh Mafi

Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears. — Clarence Day

[A] healthy respect for tradition[;]...a kind of default survival behavior — Kim Stanley Robinson

Oh, no!" Hazel wailed. "Popcorn! Our fatal weakness! — Rick Riordan

It's funny how happiness can elude you for so long, and then you find out it's as easy as changing your mind."

---From "Hearts Reunited" (book 2 of the Law of Attraction trilogy) by Jeane Watier — Jeane Watier

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong. — Don Mattingly

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. — Elizabeth Bowen

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution. — Eike Batista

Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know. — Meital Dohan