Torontowebsites Quotes & Sayings

For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which has no vital principle of motion in it; but it is a living body which has life and perception, which are much more exalted than a mere mechanism or a mechanical motion. — Anne Conway

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy — Giovanni Boccaccio

The rampant, totally mystifying force of contradiction. I understand now that each fact is nullified by the next fact, that each thought engenders an equal and opposite thought. Impossible to say anything without reservation. — Paul Auster

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence. — Amity Shlaes

Still less, despite appearances, will it have been a collection of three "essays" whose itinerary it would be time, after the fact, to recognize; whose continuity and underlying laws could now be pointed out; indeed, whose overall concept or meaning could at last, with all the insistence required on such occasions, be squarely set forth. I will not feign, according to the code, either premeditation or improvisation. These texts are assembled otherwise; it is not my intention here to present them. — Jacques Derrida

think of nothing things
think of wind — Truman Capote

Comedian Red Skelton once defined Congress as "bingo with billions." These days, it's more like Russian roulette. — Lauren M. Bloom

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected. — Bill Ayers

It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling. — Liam Payne

Art is not a mirror to hold up to reality, rather a hammer to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht

You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness. — David Baldacci