Ubikwist Quotes & Sayings

Oh come in from the confines of your own mind my dear
Because worry is all you'll find there it's clear
And tomorrow will always come
And tomorrow may well bring the sun — Ben Howard

Of course I'd like children. But I have to get over my impression that being pregnant is like popping corn. You expand and expand until you pop. — Markie Post

One learns one's mystery at the price of one's innocence. — Robertson Davies

I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function ... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves. — Neil Gaiman

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity. — Orhan Pamuk

A while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, — Lewis Carroll

I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go ... They can own companies and apartments ... but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States. — Robert Mugabe

We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse. — Pema Chodron

It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime. — Laura Bush

Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible. — Sallust

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech. — Nathaniel Altman

If we go on behaving in the same way, we will crash. If we pretend that those obstacles in our character don't exist, or are something else entirely, we will still crash. But if we acknowledge them and behave in a different way, we will come to a better and safer place. — Sally Brampton

My father taught only math. — John Updike