You57 Quotes & Sayings

Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation. — Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis

Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind. — Alexis De Tocqueville

You see, what we do with what He gives us determines how much more we will get. — Joshua Stannard

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. — H.L. Mencken

We are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. — Stephen Chbosky

The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance. — Terry Pratchett

'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost. — Ashley Greene

If you asked my dad about selecting any kind of professional career, he'd tell you, "Don't make a date with a heart attack." Meaning: You've got to pace yourself and not forget to slow down. No job is forever. So relax and have some fun. — Chuck Palahniuk

All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious — C. G. Jung

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses. — Katie McGrath

white, Emily. I've wanted you for a very long time. First, I wasn't brave enough. Then we weren't in the same place. But now we are. You're here. I'm here. And I want to be your man. — Veronica Larsen

Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power. — Elizabeth Lesser

Increasingly, companies use their power to influence and manipulate their users. Websites that profit from advertising spend a lot of effort making sure you spend as much time on those sites as possible, optimizing their content for maximum addictiveness. — Bruce Schneier

But something-luck, fate, conspiracy, whatever you want to call it-has thrown us together." He leaned forward, his gaze never leaving her face. "Of all the crazy places in the world, here we are, at the same table, in the same dirty Vietnamese cafe. And ... " He paused, his brown eyes warm, his crooked smile a fleeting glimmer in his seriousness. "I'm beginning to think it's time we gave in and followed this crazy script. Time we followed our instincts. — Tess Gerritsen