Top 10 Happy Birthday Quotes & Sayings

A man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making. — Thomas Merton

To be great, practice simplicity and express humility. — Debasish Mridha

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. — John Dryden

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. — Joe Biden

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [ ... ] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world. — Theodore Zeldin

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being. — Wendell Berry

It sounds romantic finding the meaning of life in Tibet, but enlightenment in Tibet is for Tibetans! The meaning of life for most of us is probably in the suburbs. — Andrew Matthews

She was convinced the demonic pain she had suffered in her leg as a child had been in some sort of preparation for the accident. Engraved in her memory was how she had been left speechless by the first attack. She had yet to accept that pain cannot be expressed in words but only in inarticulate screams. It took time before she could put brush to canvas, and still more time before she could paint pictures that screamed. In place of the screams themselves. In place of verbal descriptions. She owed it to her father, she thought, to the frantic look in his eyes which she would never forget, and to his words: 'Tell me, tell me! — Slavenka Drakulic

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. — Mitt Romney

We see nature as genius when we see as genius. — James P. Carse

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. — John Green

Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed. — Stephen King

I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them. — Richard Russo

No wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity. — William Cowper