Unembellished Facts Quotes & Sayings

Prayer is the power of being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hence words are learnt; hence eloquence is to be attained, most necessary to persuade people to your way of thinking, and to unfold your opinions." So, in truth, we should never have understood these words, — Augustine Of Hippo

It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men. — Allan Gurganus

To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance. — Eric Hoffer

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second. — Ally Carter

When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least. — Martin Puryear

Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back. — Deepak Chopra

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government. — Lawrence Kudlow

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect. — Mordecai Richler

Admiral Croft's manners were not quite of the tone to suit Lady Russell, but they delighted Anne. His goodness of heart and simplicity of character were irresistible. — Jane Austen

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations. — Paul Klee

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on. — Djuna Barnes

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved. — Red Smith