Quotes By Famous Authors: [R]
Sometimes I really do feel that Peter Griffin is right about the clouds plotting against us.
Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh, Lord! Grant me ...
We will become an endangered species in the next century. Machines will take over. Ideas won't matter. Performance alone will count.
Fences sure are funny, aren't they, Papa?""How so?""Well, you be friends with Mr. Tanner and all. But we keep this fence up like it was ...
Let your eyes be the camera and your imagination be the set.
Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.
Epicurus (341-270 B.C.) was the last major Greek philosopher of the classical era to make significant original contributions to the study of language, developing a ...
Possibility is not a facet of opportunity. It's one of fate. And I've never been one to fear destiny.
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If ...
Himalayans (blackberries) seize the land, gobbling acres, blanketing banks, consuming abandoned farmhouses and their Studebakers and anything left alone in the rain for five minutes ...
You can intimidate some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people ...
Des snorted again, rolling her eyes at Ruby as if, in a world that contained werewolves, faeries were just over the top.
Loving a warrior is hard. Dying in the line of duty is an honor to them. They would rather take that road than to dishonor ...
When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again.
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are ...
The secret to success is to try to never figure that out.
Defending evil acts is also evil, All who commit this deed should know By defending evil you make yourself part of it You cause evilness ...
There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a ...
We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but ...
Quentin wasn't stupid, despite living what his father called 'a lifestyle unworthy of yourself'.
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
.'All is suffering' is a bad modernist translation. What the Buddha really said is: It's all a mixed bag. Shit is complicated. Everything's fucked up. ...
Love is infinitely more powerful than hate,
Know your mind and see your nature.
Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.
If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.
The politician dispenses wealth which other men have produced, and we say he is "compassionate," while the businessman who produces the wealth is dismissed as ...
It's like you spend your whole youth being told just how awesome and special you are, but then you take one step outside and that ...
In life there are heads and there are tails however when one starts to excrete thoughts out of the latter and proceed to relieve yourself ...
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
If there's one thing worse than a zealot, it's a hypocrite!Merlin, from the X-Calibur sequel
Julian presented the food. A fillet of sea bass with perfect griddle marks and a scattering of fennel picked from a nearby hedgerow. There were ...
Going somewhere?
I've spent a good part of my life in Silicon Valley, California, and I really like that place.
Every client presents a practitioner with a novel and unique problem to solve. A therapist has to be a general problem-solver, and part of this ...
An eternally changing world offers no future for which you must aim. With no future to aspire to, you are free to live fully in ...
You can never fully appreciate the ups if you have not conquered the downs.
There is a moment before we are fully awake when truths known only to our unconscious mind brush over us like a mother's kiss. These ...
Nature is bent on new beginningand death has not a chance of winning ...
What's the use of fast iteration if all it does is get us to a suboptimal solution more quickly,
There is nothing better - nothing - than knowing that the risen Christ lives right now in heaven, singing over his people - singing over ...
I snapped to consciousness with the incandescent realization that somewhere, deep in our dreams, or deep in unconsciousness, or deep in the afterlife, all conflicts ...
A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.
If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?
(LBJ) had what a journalist calls "a genius for analogy" - made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. ...
Remember only to learn
If you are not good at innovating, be smart in investing.
Putting people in their place shows that you yourself have nowhere to go.
People keep making excuses, that's why everthing happens for a reason.
What Jedi always looks well dressed? Luke TieWalker