Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.
I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.
It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.
The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear.
The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.
The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.
At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.
There's something about us using the word fascism and thinking about, "What is it? What does it mean, and what are the tenets of it?".
God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.
The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.
You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.
You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.
I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don't have the perfect body. No one does!
If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.
A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.
Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.
Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.
So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick) No, but if you don’t lay off me, I’m going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron)
Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.
Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.
The reference to John Podesta is general. It is not specific. And, by the way, he does have his time in the barrel shortly thereafter.
America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.
The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.
...thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity.
I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.
You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.
She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress
I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.
Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.
For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind
As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.
The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.