Supercedes Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

But now that was all gone by, and had left her neither happier nor wiser; and the best she could do with her mornings was to come up here into the cold church and juggle for a slice of heaven. — Robert Louis Stevenson

from that, there was nothing. — Alexander McCall Smith

Men made mistakes and when they asked forgiveness, women forgave. It happened every day. — J. Courtney Sullivan

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice. — Paul Auster

Philosophy is the strangest of subjects: it aims at rigour and yet is unable to establish any results; it attempts to deal with the most profound questions and yet constantly finds itself preoccupied with the trivialities of language; and it claims to be of great relevance to rational enquiry and the conduct of our life and yet is almost completely ignored. But perhaps what is strangest of all is the passion and intensity with which it is pursued by those who have fallen in its grip. — Kit Fine

I'm not perfect and I'm not always right, but I'm here, open, paying attention, loving you, and fully engaged. — Brene Brown

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal? — Mary Norris

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae. — Paul Walker

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. — Virginia Woolf

It was a nice night. A pleasant evening. There seemed to be stars somewhere and it was easy to avoid stepping in the garbage and dog shit on the streets. A truly beautiful night. Tony — Hubert Selby Jr.

The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything ... he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys. — Jack Kerouac Atop An Underwood Early Stories And Other Writings

If I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem. — Natalie Clifford Barney