Youd Be Surprised Quotes & Sayings

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. — George Bernard Shaw

A father is nowhere near as valuable as a spoon. — Catherynne M Valente

It was time to be strong,
take a chance ... after all,
Forever was such a long time
to feel small. — Rachel Bright

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity. — Tacitus

What you think about the most drives your reality; control your thoughts to manage your reality. — Steven Redhead

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore De Balzac

The greatest adventure is reading! — Lailah Gifty Akita

You live well.
The slum must be inside you. — Tomas Transtromer

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo. — John R. Rice

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business - all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry). — Daniel J. Levitin

Wherever life and knowledge seemed to contradict each other, there was never any serious struggle: in such cases, denial and doubt amounted to madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world. — Charlie Brooker

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life. — George Eliot