Stop Mining Quotes & Sayings

Honey is not always sweet. So is life — Angel Phetheni

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing. — Leo Tolstoy

It's difficult because we tend to overrate the pain of failure. We fear it too much. That's research that emerges from psychology. We think it's going to be worse than it really is. And, I think, as we get a bit older, really after we leave school or college, we quickly stop experimenting. — Tim Harford

Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year ... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking. — David Satcher

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. — Andre Gide

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. — Samuel Butler

If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them. — J.P. Moreland

If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction. — Mitch McConnell

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed. — Myrtle Reed

Jesus promised his disciples three things - that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble. — William Barclay

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. — Voltaire

When I am spotted somewhere, it means that my characterizations haven't covered up Eleanor Parker the person. I prefer it the other way around. — Eleanor Parker

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is! — L.M. Montgomery