Separately Stated Quotes & Sayings

We believe we can't attract to ourselves what we want because we think we are separate from God, and whether we are able to manifest anything is dependent upon whether God wants us to do that or not. — Wayne Dyer

And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow. — Alexander Smith

You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame. — John Ruskin

An error in the doctrine of God will have inevitable consequences in the sphere of action, of moral behaviour, of the polity of the Church, and of basic culture and social organization. A change in the doctrine of the Trinity in either of these directions cannot help but have political consequences.

Farrell, commenting on Nazianzen's connection between Trinity and Holy Monarchy — Joseph P. Farrell

Emery gives me a rock that she's colored on. She whispers in my ear. You can smash people's fingers with it when they're mean. — Jillian Dodd

Hey, come on, I've seen younger faces on money. Money. — Colin Mochrie

If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it! — Minsky M.A.

Danseuse routine and my fame grew. I could walk into a — Lisa See

I think what happens is that you do the project first, then you think about what it's about. Years later, you figure out why you've done things. — Steven Klein

It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer. — Tori Amos

At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.' — Conan O'Brien

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. — Thomas Huxley

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great! — Robin Williams

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart. — Aimee Bender

As a general rule ... people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it. — Alexandre Dumas