Sdemt Quotes & Sayings

Living in a dream of the future is considered a character flaw. Living in the past, bathed in nostalgia, is also considered a character flaw. Living in the present moment is hailed as spiritually admirable, but truly ignoring the lessons of history or failing to plan for tomorrow are considered character flaws ... I wanted to know how to inhabit time in a way that wasn't a character flaw. — Sarah Manguso

It is a great joy to work for what you want. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Her heart leapt out to him before she could stop it. — Rainbow Rowell

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume. — Ludwig Von Mises

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake. — Ernest Gaines

there was a new feature in Pierre which won him the favor of all people: this was the recognition of the possibility for each person of thinking, feeling, and looking at things in his own way; the recognition of the impossibility of changing a person's opinion with words. This legitimate peculiarity of each person, which formerly had troubled and irritated Pierre, now constituted the basis of the sympathy and interest he took in people. — Leo Tolstoy

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. — Walter Lippmann

They tell me to be quiet
When I'd rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
Out their eccentric meaning. — Initially NO

A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways. It is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, and who no long desires anything for himself, not even the glory of being a martyr. — T. S. Eliot

Give your life to Christ, he'll challenge you. — Billy Graham