This Event Prompted Quotes & Sayings

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

They'll tell you they love you like stars in the West But along comes corn whiskey; they love it the best. Go, — Caroline Kennedy

You are your own anchor, Ryke. When you fail, you hurt yourself more than anyone else. Do you want to keep burning or are you going to let yourself rise — Krista Ritchie

The roughest make-up I ever wore was for 'Phantom of the Opera' because the phantom's face was all disfigured, and he's trying to pass in public so he can attend his beloved opera. That was make-up over make-up. — Robert Englund

Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. — Henry David Thoreau

Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love. — Rajneesh

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event. — Kazuo Ishiguro

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end. — Nikola Tesla

Have you ever considered making at least a pretense of humility, Mr. Hunt? Just for the sake of politeness?
"I don't believe in false modesty."
"People might like you more if you did."
"Would you? — Lisa Kleypas

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others. — Harriet Martineau

You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character. — Lucille Bliss

Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists make abstraction from everything except the mental state which prompted the suicide; the biologists abstract from everything except the dying organism; while the physicists are interested in the man, not as mind, or as organism, but as a falling body. — Fulton J. Sheen

We ride the blades again
beside the crooked bay. You smile.
I hold you like a hole holds light.

We wear our hats and ride the knives.
They cannot fix you. They try and try.
Tunnel! Into the dark open we go.
Days you are sick, we get dressed slow. — Maria Hummel