Ukescountrycorner Quotes & Sayings

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals ... What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained. — Denis Diderot

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. — David Hare

The women also put my life of privilege, opportunity, independence, and freedom into perspective. As an American woman, I was spoiled: to work, to make decisions, to be independent, to have relationships with men, to feel sexy, to fall in love, to fall out of love, to travel. I was only twenty-six, and I had already enjoyed a lifetime of new experiences. — Lynsey Addario

Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things. — Albert Camus

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself. — Frida Kahlo

Find your passion and let it shine for the world to see. Nobody will see the scars you endure, only the brilliance of who you are. Let that be how you're judged. — J.M. Macchiavelli

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all. — Marilynne Robinson

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. — Voltaire

We're saints and sinners both, the lot of us, or else there's no saints and no sinners. — Alan Moore

Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements. — Baha'u'llah

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice. — Ian Goldin