Shakespires Quotes & Sayings

When we feel like victims, all our actions and beliefs are legitimised, however questionable they may be. Our opponents, or simply our neighbours, stop sharing common ground with us and become our enemies. We stop being aggressors and become defenders. The envy, greed or resentment that motivates us becomes sanctified, because we tell ourselves we're acting in self-defence. Evil, menace, those are always the preserve of the other. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves. — Erin Morgenstern

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Slipknot sounds like Tre choking on a hairball. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Good stories teach! — Camron Wright

Farmers grow on the land. I suppose farmers grow farmers, rather than using sex to reproduce. — Jarod Kintz

The greatest gift that humans have is the ability to think. Of all the creatures in the world, humans are physically the most ill-equipped. A human cannot fly like a bird, outrun a leopard, swim like an alligator, nor climb trees like a monkey. A human doesn't have the eyes of an eagle, nor the claws and teeth of a wild cat. Physically, humans are helpless and defenseless; a tiny insect can kill them. But nature is reasonable and kind. Nature's greatest gift to humankind is the ability to think. Humans can create their own environment, whereas animals have to adapt to their environment. — Shiv Khera