Qusais Quotes & Sayings

The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel. — Joe Rogan

Isn't the whole point of things - beautiful things - that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another? — Donna Tartt

Together they unlocked potential in one another. They worked hard and played harder, until the work felt like play. Everything — Walidah Imarisha

To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work. — Hannah Whitall Smith

After all, Paul Robeson said, 'Artists are the radical voice of civilization.' Each and every one of you in this room, with your gifts and your power and your skills, could perhaps change the way in which our global humanity mistrusts itself. Perhaps we as artists and as visionaries, for what's better in the human heart and the human soul, could influence citizens everywhere in the world to see the better side of who and what we are as a species. — Harry Belafonte

Maybe I want to forget," I say, just to be contrary. "Maybe it'd be easier to forget, and get on with my life. Isn't that healthier? Moving on — Anonymous

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality. — Winifred Holtby

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up. — Charlie Day

Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement. — Gjon Mili

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage. — Maria Montessori

Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth. — Jill Lepore

In my psychology class, I learned that bettors are more confident about the horses they pick after they place their bets. — Will McIntosh