Rip Van Winkle Important Quotes & Sayings

Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. — Anthony Doerr

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. — Albert Einstein

Sometimes you know that no one can replace the person you love, and your heart will never be the same. — Cheyenne McCray

The dread, I learned, builds slowly. It eats away at you a little bit over time until you start questioning everything you do and feel. — Jeanie Dyer

You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this. — Maimonides

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. — Michael Caine

Thomas Aquinas said of suffering, as Aristotle had said of shame, that it was a thing not good in itself; but a thing which might have a certain goodness in particular circumstances. That is to say, if evil is present, pain at recognition of the evil, being a kind of knowledge, is relatively good. — C.S. Lewis

A lazy writer (it's easy to hate things) or a versatile one? I don't believe in an afterlife. We live and then we stop living. We exist and then we stop existing. That means I only get one chance to do a good job. I want to do a good job. — Lindy West

There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful. — Kevin Sampsell

Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past. — Ovid

But jealousy is a dreadful thing, Jessica. It is the most natural to us of the really wicked passions and it goes deep and envenoms the soul. It must be resisted with every honest cunning and with the deliberate thinking of generous thoughts, however abstract and empty these may seem in comparison with that wicked strength... There is no merit, Jessica, in a faithfulness which is poison to you and captivity to him. — Iris Murdoch

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other. — Robert Teeter