Wisdomain Quotes & Sayings

The difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something are worlds apart. — Lionel Suggs

The trouble was, Elizabeth thought, they did not tell the children of colonial families not to love these foreign lands, not to fall in love with their birthplaces. While parents dreamt of retiring in peace to another place called 'home', their children soaked up knowledge of the only world they knew: its different peoples, its spicy food, its birdsong, the way warm rain fell like a curtain through the palm trees. Their souls would be forever torn. — Anne M. Chappel

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for. — Winifred Holtby

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding. — Sri Chinmoy

He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek refuge for his crushed self-confidence in the solace of a 'saving lie'. If the longed-for success is not forthcoming, if the vicissitudes of fate destroy in the twinkling of an eye what had to be painstakingly built up by years of hard work, then he simply multiplies his exertions. He can look disaster in the eye without despairing. — Ludwig Von Mises

You know the saying 'there's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole?' Well, there's no such thing as a vegetarian in an apocalypse, — Steven Konkoly