Trivializing Def Quotes & Sayings

Creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains - we can't know. — James Redfield

I don't believe I'd really want to be a sensible person, because they are so unromantic. — L.M. Montgomery

To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told me there was a reall truth therein: for first wee are a rude masse, and in the ranke of creatures, which only are, and have a dull kinde of being not yet priviledged with life, or preferred to sense or reason; next we live the life of plants, the life of animals, the life of men, and at last the life of spirits, running on in one mysterious nature those five kinds of existence, which comprehend the creatures not onely of world, but of the Universe. — Thomas Browne

I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not. — Aidan Gillen

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. — Anna Brownell Jameson

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore. — Jaggi Vasudev

Learn all the rules ... then break them. — Lea DeLaria

For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature. — Anna Quindlen

Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself. — Erri De Luca

I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do. — Ashley Tisdale

Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are insightful, profound, and convincing, but fair. On Gaia is wonderfully informative and a pleasure to read. — Francisco J. Ayala