Sreality Quotes & Sayings

The purpose of Knowledge is to create a doorway which leads to the Truth — Misha Hoo

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave. — Idries Shah

It's better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you'll end up paying with your life. — Yu Hua

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it. — Amelie Nothomb

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me. — Caroline Leavitt

You make a great investment in the consumer Internet, maybe you make a lot of money and create something useful, interesting, or fun. But in life sciences, you have a chance to be part of something that lets people live longer and healthier and not lose the people they care about. That is really profound. — Bill Maris

Otto said: Try to figure out a way to kill us nicely. You can, of course, drop mother into the well, and maybe you could poison me somehow. — Vaino Linna

God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast. — Saint Ambrose

Cursed luck! - said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, - for man to be master of one of the finest chains of reasoning in nature, - and have a wife at the same time with such a head-piece, that he cannot hang up a single inference within side of it, to save his soul from destruction. — Laurence Sterne

Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want. — Hannah Whitall Smith

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. — Henry A. Kissinger

Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people. — Fyodor Tyutchev

He was the most contradictory of men. A champion of extending freedom and democracy to even the poorest of whites, Jackson was an unrepentant slaveholder. A sentimental man who rescued an Indian orphan on a battlefield to raise in his home, Jackson was responsible for the removal of Indian tribes from their ancestral lands. An enemy of Eastern financial elites and a relentless opponent of the Bank of the United States, which he believed to be a bastion of corruption, Jackson also promised to die, if necessary, to preserve the power and prestige of the central government. Like us and our America, Jackson and his America achieved great things while committing grievous sins. — Jon Meacham