Musing Quotes

This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.

~ Daniel Klein

I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong. Many who held no faith in the Force acted righteously, and he had known more than one sentient who had acted selfishly, even cruelly, and used belief to justify doing so.

~ Greg Rucka

A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you had to lose everything, what would you miss most? It wouldn't be anything gross, like the big house, or the fancy car, assuming you had such things. It wouldn't be your impeccable reputation, or fame, or the regard of others. No; if you had to lose everything – I mean EVERYTHING – it would be the things you most take for granted now that you would miss. It would be different for each person, and it would probably surprise you to know what it was: a lilac tree in flower, the sound of a train in the distance, the smell of marmalade or hot buttered toast. Rain on a windowpane. A fruit thingummy.

~ John Burnside

Why haven't I got a husband and children? mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, I never met a man I could marry.

~ Greta Garbo

Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Your thoughts are transparent.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words.

~ Sanober Khan

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

~ Guillermo Del Toro

Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?

~ Hilary Grossman

...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

~ John Geddes

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. People get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them, he said. At age forty-five, Jobs was now about to get out of his groove.

~ Walter Isaacson

By my hand and for the good of the state, the bearer has done what has been done. Hmmmm ~~~ one should be careful what one writes for one never knows into whose hands it may fall.

~ Cardinal Richelieu Four Musketeers