Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.
...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.
Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.
Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.
i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?
I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.
The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.
Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
Between black and white there throbs the universe of chromatic phenomena.
A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.
And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.
You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.
The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.
Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.
Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.
Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.
I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?
Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.
When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.
Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.