Reexamining Socrates Quotes & Sayings

The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world. — Gore Vidal

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old. — Quincy Jones

How am I coping? I miss George and the goddamn world is still full of zombies, that's how. Everything else ...
Everything else is just details. And those don't really matter to me anymore. — Mira Grant

That was her magic -
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest days. — Atticus Poetry

When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway. — Maeve Binchy

Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet — Phil Harding

Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many perils. It may shatter under the blows of criticism, evaporate with competition's heat, sink to the bottomless depths of others' indifference. Tend to your dream. Protect it as you would a fallen nestling. Until the day when it - and you - will fly. — Jerry Spinelli

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous. — Gunter Grass

If a man tries to steal your wife, the best form of revenge is to let him have her. — Rachel Abbott

I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God. — Eugene H. Peterson