Quotes by Authors - Page 5010

Is the undertaker joyous when his turn comes around? All those years holding the door open. To pass through - does it feel like a privileged?
Richard Smyth
Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité
Michel de Montaigne
Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.
Michel de Montaigne
Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.
Michel de Montaigne
Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.
Michel de Montaigne
J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.
Michel de Montaigne
L'honneste est stable et permanent.
Michel de Montaigne
D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.
Michel de Montaigne
Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.
Michel de Montaigne
L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.
Michel de Montaigne
I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.
Richard Smyth
In America, Amazon competes with yahoo and Google by competing with a gas station. Imagine if every price in QT was the same, but had a for sale sign beside higher prices, and you'll have either Amazon or Craiglist.
Anonymous
The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.
John Green
I have a secret to confide to you, my confidante. Who should I confide it to? To Echo? She would betray it. To the stars? They are cold. People? They do not understand. Only to you can I confide it, for you know how to safeguard it. There is a girl, more beautiful than my soul’s dream, purer than the light of the sun, deeper than the source of the ocean, more proud than the flight of the eagle―there is a girl―oh! bend your head to my ear and my words, that my secret may steal into it―this girl I love more dearly than my life, for she is my life; more dearly than all my desires, for she is the only one; more dearly than all my thoughts, for she is the only one; more warmly than the sun loves the flower, more intensely than sorrow the privacy of the troubled mind; more longingly than the desert’s burning sand loves the rain―I cling to her more tenderly than the mother’s eye to the child, more confidingly than the pleading soul to God, more inseparably than the plant to its root.―Your head grows heavy and thoughtful, it sinks down on your breast, your bosom rises to its aid―my Cordelia! You have understood me, you have understood me exactly, to the letter, not one jot have you ignored. Shall I stretch the membrane of my ear and let your voice assure me of this? Should I doubt? Will you safeguard this secret? Can I depend on you? One hears of people who, in terrible crimes, dedicate themselves to mutual silence. I have confided to you a secret which is my life and my life’s content. Have you nothing to confide to me, nothing so beautiful, so significant…?”―Johannes de Silentio, from_Either/Or_
Søren Kierkegaard
Of course we dance with our demons. Our angels are far too shy.
Kayla Krantz
As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.
John N Gray
We all encounter things that may seem dim and puzzling at first, but when we actively explore them, we find bold, undauntable light igniting the way from the inside. From within.
Kayla Severson
Tyrants don't become a success.They become obsessed!
Anthony T.Hincks
When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again look back.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you shut out the universe around you. You inadvertently become the very universe that you were trying to shut out.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you walk a tightrope, you don't want to be eating buttered popcorn.
Anthony T.Hincks
You don't need to put on make-up to make you look pretty. All you need to do is put on a smile and that will make you pretty in anyone's book.
Anthony T.Hincks
When you speak from your heart, the words ring true, but as you speak in anger, I'll only shed tears for you.
Anthony T.Hincks
Imagination is the sacred intuition.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!
Anthony T.Hincks
Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!
Anthony T.Hincks
Doors are funny things. Some lead to somewhere exciting and wonderful, while others lead to the mundane and ordinary. Some, because they are gaudy and ornate, usher us into the land of greed and money. But many look unassuming and plain, yet hidden behind their simplicity one can find love; warmth; a cozy fire; a home cooked meal and a beautiful family.It's these doors I search for in life and it's these doors that I shall find.
Anthony T.Hincks
Each day brings with it a whole new world because each day is different from the previous day or the one it precedes.No two days will ever be the same and that is the beauty of the world and of God, because he wants us to see and experience new things each and every day.
Anthony T.Hincks
Death has been said to be the leveller in that it does not recognize one’s class, race,ethnicity or nationality. Death does not look at the face before it strikes; it pays noattention to one’s beliefs or outlook to issues in life. Death has often been said to beinevitable. So it is glaring that for as long as people are born, people are bound to diesomeday but how man dies is a huge mystery.
Remi Akujobi
Travelling allows you to see the world as it is.And that's beautiful.
Anthony T.Hincks
DEATH is big business.Thank god for capitalism.
Anthony T.Hincks
The joy of having no friends is that I can do anything I want; when I want.The downside is, that I have no one to share it with.
Anthony T.Hincks
When God sprinkled stars in the heavens, he opened our eyes to the wonders of the universe.
Anthony T.Hincks
When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said.Yet...When you have dirty money and you launder it, people jump up and down.I guess that's life.
Anthony T.Hincks
The act of living is a revolutionary right.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all.
Eraldo Banovac
True friendship doesn't include jealousy.
Eraldo Banovac
The people who overcome their fears are the ones who can achieve their dreams.
Eraldo Banovac
We should enjoy every minute we live today because who knows if we will have a chance to do so tomorrow.
Eraldo Banovac
A free man does not do what must be done, but what should be done.
Eraldo Banovac
In reality, there is no such thing as absolute freedom. The rules of social interaction determine one's freedom.
Eraldo Banovac
Be patient in life, knowing that there is a real possibility that the desired outcome could happen without your direct involvement.
Eraldo Banovac
Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one helped.
Eraldo Banovac
The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.
Eraldo Banovac
You can't skip over nature by logic. Logic presupposes three possibilities, but there are millions! Cut away a million, and reduce it all to the question of comfort! That's the easiest solution to the problem!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When you're as hot as you are, no amount of ice will do.
Anthony T.Hincks
It's time to fly.Care to join me?
Anthony T.Hincks
I tried to count all the seconds that I have loved you for, but I gave up. I found it was easier to count the number of the stars in the universe.
Anthony T.Hincks
Shadows only come to life in our imaginations.Unfortunately for me, I've got a very vivid imagination.
Anthony T.Hincks
Don't eat the bread unless you want to leave bread crumbs.
Anthony T.Hincks
When the sea reaches the sky, then we shall all become one.
Anthony T.Hincks
How far removed in time must an event be for us to remember it? How far for memory's longing to be no longer able to seize it? Most people have a limit in this respect: what lies too near them in time they cannot remember, nor what lies too remote. I know no limit. What was experienced yesterday, I push back a thousand years in time, and remember as if it were yesterday."―Johannes de Silentio, from_Either/Or_
Søren Kierkegaard
Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.
Eraldo Banovac
Storm clouds will always ignite the darker side of my passion.
Anthony T.Hincks
If I could forget you! Is my love then a work of memory? Even if time expunged everything from its tablets, expunged even memory itself, my relation to you would stay just as alive, you would still not be forgotten. If I could forget you! What then should I remember? For after all, I have forgotten myself in order to remember you: so if I forgot you I would come to remember myself; but the moment I remembered myself I would have to remember you again. If I could forget you! What would happen then? There is a picture from antiquity. It depicts Ariadne. She is leaping up from her couch and gazing anxiously after a ship that is hurrying away under full sail. By her side stands Cupid with unstrung bow and drying his eyes. Behind her stands a winged female figure in a helmet. It is usually assumed this is Nemesis. Imagine this picture, imagine it changed a little. Cupid is not weeping and his bow is not unstrung; or would you have become less beautiful, less victorious, if I had become mad? Cupid smiles and bends his bow. Nemesis does not stand inactive by your side; she too draws her bow. In that other picture we see a male figure on the ship, busily occupied. It is assumed it is Theseus. Not so in my picture. He stands on the stern, he looks back longingly, spreads his arms. He has repented, or rather, his madness has left him, but the ship carries him away. Cupid and Nemesis both aim at him, an arrow flies from each bow; their aim is true; one sees that, one understands, they have both hit the same place in his heart, a sign that his love was the Nemesis that wrought vengeance." ―Johannes de Silentio, from_Either/Or: A Fragment of Life_
Søren Kierkegaard
No explanation is ever as good as not having one.
Marty Rubin
Life is the longest journey.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.
Lois Lowry
Do not look for company at all costs, and especially do not allow loneliness to lead you to fickle love or false friendship.
Eraldo Banovac
In the frame of a known phenomenon of life, a human could be defined as the only proven thinking creature.
Eraldo Banovac