Unsuspectedly Quotes & Sayings

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery. — Seneca The Younger

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year. — Jane Fonda

True education is a kind of never ending story - a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. — Terry Pratchett

She could hear the voices and laughter coming from the yard, and she thought, really, this was the best part of any wedding, not the ceremony or the cake or the dancing but the downtime when they were all together without the lights shining on them. — Elin Hilderbrand

They were bound together by the things they'd done. Things the nobility could never comprehend being desperate enough to do — Lorraine Heath

A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement. — Lord Chesterfield

I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already ended, as a sort of rough draft for another? I think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light ... I have a wife and two daughters, my wife's health is delicate and so on and so on, and if I had to begin life all over again I would not marry ... No, no! — Anton Chekhov

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me. — Cassandra Clare

It's going to be unbelievable, you know. There's going to be a lot of people cheering for Mark McGwire and me. And, hey, we'll see how it goes. — Sammy Sosa

The influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity. — Dante Alighieri

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. — Oscar Wilde

I'm basically a gift-giver. — Christie Hefner

He was seeing the final contradiction, the grotesque absurdity at the end of the irrationalists' game — Ayn Rand