Repousing Quotes & Sayings

The worst of these politics of revolution is this: they temper and harden the breast, in order to prepare it for the desperate strokes which are sometimes used in extreme occasions. But — Edmund Burke

Life is a game in which happiness is the goal. — Frederick Lenz

It's common for information previously considered unclassified to be upgraded to classified before being publicly released. — Jennifer Palmieri

beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. — Oscar Wilde

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them. — Khalil Gibran

Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience. — Dexter Palmer

Around the opposite sex, especially back then, my tongue twisted into knots even a Boy Scout would walk away from — Jay Asher

Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. Because the pain of you is one I cannot bear — Kiersten White

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. — Oscar Isaac

Our prayers are prophets. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A purring noise woke him. Something furry was curled on his chest. Jarby opened one eye slowly. Something black, white, buff, and lemon-smelling. He glared at her and groaned. Stupid wytzl. Buffi chirruped and fluttered away to Poke. — Ellen Dawn Benefield

When I came back, they gave me blank looks. Some said, 'I don't think I've seen you for days.' Some not even that. And I'd been away for ten years! — Mesa Selimovic

I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person. — Don Ho

When he was a boy (Carnegie) back in Scotland, he got hold of a rabbit, a mother rabbit. Presto! He soon had a whole nest of little rabbits and nothing to feed them. But he had a brilliant idea. He told the boys and girls in the neighbourhood that if they would go out and pull enough clover and dandelions to feed the rabbits, he would name the bunnies in their honour. The plan worked like magic. — Dale Carnegie

You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you. — Rainbow Rowell