Zaful Quotes & Sayings

He is only one of a million no, a billion stories you could tell about the living beings on just this side of the mountain. The fact is that there are more stories in the space of a single second, in a single square foot of dirt and air and water, then we could tell in a hundred years. The word amazing isn't much of a word for how amazing it is. The fact is that there are more stories in the world than there are fish in the sea or birds in the air or lies among politicians. You could be sad at how many stories go untold, but you could also be delighted at how many stories we catch and share in delight and wonder and astonishment and illumination and sometimes even epiphany. — Brian Doyle

Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more. — Joseph Hall

Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them. — Nicholas Negroponte

Then come. Let me send you to see if you have lived your life serving a deity or a dream. — Shaun Hick

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. — Simone De Beauvoir

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula. — Bela Lugosi

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light. — Lady Randolph Churchill

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share. — Norman MacCaig

The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell. — Jay Abraham

What's wrong with the world Peter?
God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting or enjoying things. It doesn't matter what you're talking about - war, work, marriage, democracy, love, it all fails because everybody gives up trying after a while, we can't help ourselves. And don't ask me to solve it because I am the worst. I'd escape tomorrow if I could, from every single thing I've always wanted. — Jenny Valentine

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing. — Ken Burns

You got no idea, do you? You got no idea how beautiful you are. — Moira Young

Look at life: the insolence and idleness of the strong, the ignorance and brutishness of the weak, horrible poverty everywhere, overcrowding, degeneration, drunkenness, hypocrisy, lying
yet in all the houses and on the streets there is peace and quiet; of the fifty thousand people who live in our town there is not one who would cry out, who would vent his indignation aloud. We see the people who go to market, eat by day, sleep by night, who babble nonsense, marry, grow old, good-naturedly drag their feet to the cemetery, but we do not see or hear those who suffer, and what is terrible in life goes on somewhere behind the scenes. Everything is peaceful and quiet and only mute statistics protest. — Anton Chekhov

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce. — Bear Grylls