Thankfing Quotes & Sayings

Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another. — Roberto Bolano

You were born awesome. Please don't die average. — Robin Sharma

Imitation can be commercial suicide. — William Bernbach

I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs. — Justin Townes Earle

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. — Wyndham Lewis

Conversion requires an alteration of the will, and an alteration which, in the last resort, does not occur without the intervention of the supernatural. — C.S. Lewis

Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Sometimes people do much wrong unintentionally, meaning for the best — Tracy Hickman

It is easier, far easier, to obey another than to command oneself. — Irvin D. Yalom

Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies. — Michael Bloomberg

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God. — Victor Hugo

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. — Karen Armstrong

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are. — Frederick Lenz