Syndicate 2012 Quotes & Sayings

I wrote: 'Do you really not believe in love?'
I really wished I never would have asked.
'No', she had written back. 'I believe people become infatuated; maybe they even really like each other. But I don't believe in love. Those kinds of feelings just don't last. You feel them for a while, maybe even a few years, but eventually the feeling goes away. — Keary Taylor

Intuition is a heart message minus the static. — Sue Thoele

In a word, God paints in many colors; but he never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. In a sense our age has realized this fact, and expressed it in our sullen costume. For if it were really true that white was a blank and colorless thing, negative and non-committal, then white would be used instead of black and grey for the funereal dress of this pessimistic period. Which is not the case.
Meanwhile I could not find my chalk. — G.K. Chesterton

For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience ... — Jeanette Winterson

There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst. — Marianne Williamson

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature. — Andrea Arnold

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart. — Henry Miller

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known. — Matthew Arnold

In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, with its religious conviction that the market, left to its own devices, is capable of resolving all our problems. This faith has its own ayatollahs. Its church is neo-liberalism; its creed is profit; its prayers are for monopolies. — Carlos Fuentes

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. ~ Epictetus — Epictetus

I'm going to find ways to make you blush, just so I can enjoy the journey. — Mary J. Williams

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you. — Megan Whalen Turner

The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. — P. J. O'Rourke