Sophies Quotes & Sayings

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body. — Jostein Gaarder

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience. — Anais Nin

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe ... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do. — David D. Burns

One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life. — Richard DeVos

It is a fact, indeed, that most of
the great teachers of mankind have been not writers
but speakers. Think of Pythagoras, Christ, Socrates,
the Buddha, and so on. And since I have spoken of
Socrates, I would like to say something about Plato. I
remember Bernard Shaw said that Plato was the dramatist
who invented Socrates — Jorge Luis Borges

It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art.
Everything is transformed by his power into material and by writing it he can overcome it. Everything is grist to his mill.
... The artist is the only free man. — W. Somerset Maugham

You are better off being homeless than being me. — Britney Spears

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein

Sorry, there's just not enough mead to go around. — Daniel Keidl

I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother. — Solange Knowles

His "s's" in "something" and "this" were so sharp that it seemed his mouth was a nest of wasps. — Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation. — Vannevar Bush

When the world was young, the gods and goddesses birthed the angels, Joy and Greed, Beauty and Empathy and Sorrow, Fear and Fury, sparks of humanity. To feel emotion, therefore, to be human,
is to be a child of the gods. — Marie Lu

A women needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle — Nancy Bartholomew

Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair. Proverbs 1:3 — Livingstone

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border. — Dave Winfield