Shortcode Attributes Quotes & Sayings

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve. — Edmund Hillary

You're not going to cry, are you?
- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years. — Khaled Hosseini

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. — Felix Adler

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible ... For this is the way of happiness. — Plato

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not,
Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.
If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive,
Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not. — Khaled Hosseini

As scientists, we track down all promising leads, and there's reason to suspect that our universe may be one of many - a single bubble in a huge bubble bath of other universes. — Brian Greene

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. — Terry Tempest Williams

The bar was meant to look like a place where Hemingway might have hung out in the Bahamas. A stuffed swordfish hung on the wall, and fishing nets dangled from the ceiling. There were lots of photographs of people posing with giant fish they had caught, and there was a portrait of Hemingway. Happy Papa Hemingway. The people who came here were apparently not concerned that the author later suffered from alcoholism and killed himself with a hunting rifle. — Haruki Murakami

You are everything I never expected. Never anticipated. Everything I never knew I'd need. — A.L. Jackson

Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet. — Louise Erdrich

If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change. — Dave Barry

He couldn't have pulled back the lock, they couldn't simply have climbed over the sides of the stall in all of three seconds, because those weren't the rules of the game.
Theirs was the intoxication of the hunter, his the terror of the prey. Once they had actually captured him the fun was over and the punishment more of a duty that had to be carried out. If he gave up too early there was a chance they would put more of their energy into the punishment instead of the hunt. — John Ajvide Lindqvist

There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them. — Joichi Ito

We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be. — Jordan Ellenberg

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary. — Jessica Hahn