Whitsuntide 2022 Quotes & Sayings

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another. — Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal

What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept. — Eleanor Catton

Life rarely gives what we hope for. We simply make the best of the hand we are dealt. — Renee Sebastian

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things. — Susan Jacoby

Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience. — Frederick Lenz

I decided to make memorizing a part of my daily routine. Like flossing. Except I was actually going to do it. — Joshua Foer

You've always been your own knight, riding to your rescue. I'm just the man who came along and saw how brightly your armor shone. — Courtney Milan

The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life
or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window
is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people. — Jojo Moyes

His hair was parted neatly on the left side in a way that he would have found absolutely horrifying. — John Green

The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world. The information the ancients didn't have was very voluminous. — Mark Twain

Rico Gear. What a great-sounding name. He sounds like a drug dealer from Brazil. — Murray Mexted

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. — Henry David Thoreau

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing. — Alan Paton

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs. — Ann Landers

When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school
I went to school for a long time
I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis ... — Alice Mattison