Unexhaustible Quotes & Sayings

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. — Mary Shelley

I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going. — Barbara Mandrell

Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind. — Francis Wayland Parker

The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character. — Donald Sumpter

I thought you lot brought a buildin' down on 'is 'ead."
"We did," Sam replied before she could. "I don't think it took. — Kady Cross

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain

They stood on the far shore of a river and called to him. Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste. Trekking the dried floor of a mineral sea where it lay cracked and broken like a fallen plate. Paths of feral fire in the coagulate sands. The figures faded in the distance. He woke and lay in the dark. — Cormac McCarthy

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales. — Samuel Johnson

As it developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the intellectual movement that went under the name of liberalism emphasized freedom as the ultimate goal and the individual as the ultimate entity in the society. It supported laissez faire at home as a means of reducing the role of the state in economic affairs and thereby enlarging the role of the individual; it supported free trade abroad as a means of linking the nations of the world together peacefully and democratically. In political matters, it supported the development of representative government and of parliamentary institutions, reduction in the arbitrary power of the state, and protection of the civil freedoms of individuals. — Milton Friedman

You have to have confidence in who you are, because you never know who's depending on you. — LZ Granderson

I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things. — Derek Landy

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing. — Swami Vivekananda

We have learned that mother trees recognize and talk with their kin, shaping future generations. In addition, injured trees pass their legacies on to their neighbors, affecting gene regulation, defense chemistry, and resilience in the forest community. — Peter Wohlleben

People are not perfect - that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection. — Marianne Williamson

You have to make choices even when there is nothing to choose from. — Peter Zilahy

In some parts of the city, curiosity didn't just kill the cat, it threw it in the river with lead weights tied to its feet. — Terry Pratchett