Sprestlib Quotes & Sayings

Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds. — Homer

She stared at him. His eyes were glazed, glassy, blazing with triumph behind his glasses, and as his lip curled in a sneer, she felt it happen.
Her love for him - whatever shred of it was left - was gone. It had slunk away into the night. It would die out there, and she would not be sorry to leave it, at the side of the road, in a no-name town surrounded by nothing but blackness.
Quietly, she said, "Knew what, exactly?"
He licked his lips.
"I knew you'd never turn into such a whore without a little help."
"Good-bye."
The word was out, and she was gone. — Kat Rosenfield

Persuaded of our nothingness and with the blessing of obedience we attempt all things, doubting nothing, for with God all things are possible. We will allow the good God to make plans for the future, for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come, and we have only today to make him known loved, and served. Grateful for the thousands of opportunities Jesus gives us to bring hope into a multitude of lives by our concern for the individual sufferer, we will help our troubled world at the brink of despair to discover a new reason to live or to die with a smile of contentment on its lips. — Mother Teresa

Your longevity in the sport is governed by how you live in between the fights. — Carl Froch

Proper nutrition is one of the most fundamental things on which anyone's healthy and happy life can be based.
If you want to radically change your being for the better, to feel satisfied about who you are, or to look slim and attractive no matter what age is stated in your passport, start with changing unhealthy eating habits to healthy ones - and make them your favorites. — Sahara Sanders

In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!' to another monk, the latter must call back 'Hi!' without thinking. — J.D. Salinger

Man knows that love is, but not what it is. — Emanuel Swedenborg

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

It takes time for people to fall in love with you ... but it's inevitable — Ian Brown

A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!! — Jim Ferree

The Doctor puffed out some air and looked down to the sea. 'A very charming man. I should be more careful of very charming men ... At least I don't have that problem with you, Rory.'
'Oi,' said Rory. — James Goss

I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot. — Rick Riordan