Famous Quotes

Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.

~ Janaki Sooriyarachchi

Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.

~ Orson Scott Card

Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.

~ Ruadhán J. Mcelroy

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.

~ Jennifer Melzer

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.

~ Sorin Cerin

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

~ Dan Buettner

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

~ Sarah Palin

Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?

~ Sorin Cerin

It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the reasoning mind of man may increasingly build.

~ John A. Widtsoe

Even the snow melts, let alone the frugal regards of a soul confident in its own eternity.

~ Sorin Cerin

There are some who deploy casual wisdom for the purpose of engaging.

~ Santosh Kalwar

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless...

~ Hermann Hesse

Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.

~ Aijaz Ahmad

Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous

~ Laura Fitzgerald

This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other--link them up with related items which you already know or wouldn't mind knowing.

~ Ralph Alfred Habas

Before big bridges, deep tunnels and the advent of health and safety regulations, there were many ways to cross rivers. They would use rowing boats, rickety rafts or in the absence of a vessel, swim or wade. Everyone knew what a stepping-stone was. They all understood that it was not something that you would want to stand on for any length of time. It was a means to an end, an important point and a route from A to B.

~ Johnathan Cainer

She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.

~ Duff Brenna

Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Weisheit kann Angst nicht bannen, Angst jedoch kann Weisheit bannen.

~ Mahabharata. Bhagavadgita. English.

The only way to heal is to help others heal, and the only way to find love and keep love in our lives is to give it to others.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

If you cannot find a reason to be grateful for today, be grateful for you have the sky.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

Thinking about the future is the worst way of thinking about the future. Working on your future is the best way of thinking about your future.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and nonetheless we never live at all.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

Beauty becomes beautiful only when it is shared with others.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

The reason why we get the same partners is not because people are the same, but because we pull the dark shadow of past hurts over our eyes and we live the same all over again. We change the actors, but never the masks we give them in our play.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

Fear is not the end. But only a transition.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

The only barrier that's blocking us from living an abundant life is our unwillingness to share what we have

~ Dragos Bratasanu

In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can change the future or prevent it from happening. Future happens regardless.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

It's always your assumptions about you, about others, about future that make reality worse than it actually is.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

In the pursuit of dreams, we all have different beginnings. Your past is not negotiable. You must let go of the hope for a better past.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

Your commitment shakes the very foundation of this universe. (from The Amazing You movie)

~ Dragos Bratasanu

How noble is the journey of each human being, from Divine to dust and back again. How brave to enter a body and dance the dance of existence only to lose everything imagined to be true in the moment of death.

~ Annie Kagan

If it doesn't open, it's not your door

~ Life Advancer

I didn't change, I just found myself.

~ Good Life Quotes

Empowered women empower women.

~ Unknown

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!

~ Coco Chanel