Speculatively Sentence Quotes & Sayings

When I was in the Navy, everyone fell under the purview of "navy gray". It is the military's way of reminding its enlisted personnel that they are all equal. Man or woman, black or white, young or old, everyone was navy gray. With God's grace I can proudly say a better understanding of this concept has helped me ameliorate disputes, mend fences that appeared hopeless and find light in the midst of darkness. — Carlos Wallace

He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith. — Michael Chabon

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else. — Arthur Young

The essential elements of a person come to light only when we must regard him as lost to us, when everything he has done seems to have been a taking leave of us. Suddenly the true nature of everything about him that was merely preparation for his ultimate death becomes truly visible. — Thomas Bernhard

There was a moment's stupefied silence. Japp, who was the least surprised of any of us, was the first to speak. — Agatha Christie

We need to name and honor what is truest about us - and then give it away. — Steve Wiens

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion. — Umberto Eco

As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban. — Clive Sinclair

By over-all planning, we mean planning which takes into consideration the interests of the 600 million people of our country. In drawing up plans, handling affairs or thinking over problems, we must proceed from the fact that China has a population of 600 million people, and we must never forget this fact. — Mao Zedong

The best reason for disbelieving in God is that he never gave us enough time in life to pursue enough knowledge to find sufficient truth. — Alexander Theroux

Sometimes giving up something shows more love than trying to hold onto it. — Ann H. Gabhart

As an individual passes from one situation to another, his [sic] world, his environment, expands or contracts. He does not find himself living in another world but in a different part or aspect of one and the same world. What he has learned in the way of knowledge and skill in one situation becomes an instrument of understanding and dealing effectively with the situations which follow. The process goes on as long as life and learning continue. Otherwise the course of experience is disorderly, since the individual factor that enters into making an experience is split. A divided world, a world whose parts and aspects do not hang together, is at once a sign and a cause of a divided personality. When the splitting-up reaches a certain point we call the person insane. A fully integrated personality, on the other hand, exists only when successive experiences are integrated with one another. It can be built up only as a world of related objects is constructed. — John Dewey

This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost. — Lauren Oliver