Syriasly Quotes & Sayings

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.' — Huey Lewis

Wanting Kate was one thing. Sex was simple. Or it could be. But liking her?
Enjoying spending time with her? Allowing her into his private life, as Brody had tonight, albeit at his sisters' invitation? It would lead to nothing but trouble. — Jackie Braun

I feel the same inside, sure I do, exactly as I felt when I was fifty, or forty, or thirty, or even twenty. There are layers and layers of living on top, but in my heart I am that same girl. — Amy Blakelear

When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. — Sarah Addison Allen

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things. — Margaret Hamburg

The only problem with my dreams is the practical side, otherwise it is perfect. — M.F. Moonzajer

Life is both a particle and a wave, Lacey taught me, and also it's neither. But only when no one is watching. Once you measure it, it has to choose. It was the act of witnessing that turned nothing into something, collapsed possibility clouds into concrete and irrevocable truth. I'd only pretended to understand before, but I understood now: When no one was watching, I was a cloud. I was all possibilities. — Robin Wasserman

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. — John Ruskin

The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become "present" within it. — Pope Benedict XVI

Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts. — Laozi

Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be
or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it. — James A. Baldwin

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell. Only if we give up our authoritarian attitude in the realm of opinion, only if we establish the attitude of give and take, of readiness to learn from other people, can we hope to control acts of violence inspired by piety and duty. — Karl Popper

He had been a tough teenager in New York's Hell's Kitchen. — Mario Puzo