Servitized Quotes & Sayings

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. — Benjamin Franklin

By saying that phenomena are empty of intrinsic existence, we are declaring not their nonexistence but their interdependence, their absence of concrete reality. And the emptiness of phenomena, far from being a mental construct or a concept, corresponds to the reality itself of the phenomenal world. — Dalai Lama XIV

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. — Napoleon Bonaparte

(Rather in the way that the Roman Empire continued in a certain fashion to run itself even when there was no one left to run it and the reason behind it was entirely gone, much of this routine remained intact even during the terrible days after Bunny's death. Up until the very end there was always, always, Sunday-night dinner at Charles and Camilla's, except on the evening of the murder itself, when no one felt much like eating and it was postponed until Monday.) I — Donna Tartt

We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be 'lost in the objectivity of world-love', as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is 'eternal' life. — Don Cupitt

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view. — Bjorn Borg

Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure. — Mikhail Naimy

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested. — John Henry Holland

Hello, a cheerful voice said in his mind. Would you like to destroy some evil today? — Brandon Sanderson

I know your face by touch when it's dark, I know the profile of your sleeping face, the sound of you sleeping. — Ann Hood

Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Where Insch was bald, Steel looked as if someone had sellotaped a Cairn terrier to her head. Rumour had it she was only forty-two, but she looked a lot older. Years of chain smoking had left her face looking like a holiday home for lines and wrinkles. — Stuart MacBride

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again. — Shaquille O'Neal

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove. — Kami Garcia

It costs nothing to dream and everything not to — Rodney White