233 Quotes

#1. As Michel de Montaigne observed, "The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced."
p 233

Gretchen Rubin

#2. The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Lao-Tzu

#3. Jacquelyn, Luna, Mate. You have many names. Each of them holds a special meaning, but the only thing I want to call you is mine.
Loftis, Quinn (2011-11-18). Blood Rites: Book 2 Grey Wolves Series (The Grey Wolves Series) (p. 233). Kindle Edition.

Quinn Loftis

#4. I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to.

Kevin Warwick

#5. I thought he had to look for what he was looking for, and realize it no longer existed, or never existed. p. 233

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. I feel we don't really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can't learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)

Swami Satchidananda

#7. She hung up and the room was a fist of silence. page 233

William Kent Krueger

#8. May, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. (233)

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen. (278)

Jacqueline Woodson

#9. I'm a zero inbox guy.

Denis McDonough

#10. She is determined to learn to anticipate her worst bouts of psychosis, and head them off before they overwhelm her. "I'm trying to recognize when it's coming on," she says, "so I can get out of the way or at least drop to the ground like you would when caught in the crossfire of a shootout." (233)

Michael Greenberg

#11. The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#12. With all their sharpness and being pointy - their sole purpose was to stab you.

Jessica Sorensen

#13. The world is a better place when America is willing to lead.

Marco Rubio

#14. Game changers will, most of the time, throw you off your game.

S.A. Tawks

#15. Ayn Rand brings the best and the worst animal instinct out in humans. Well, excuse me, I aspire to be further evolved ethically than that. I really believe that Ayn Rand is the Marilyn Monroe of philosophy--all seduction, little substance.

John Stuart

#16. I missed 'em, sure enough, true and deep and hard, but the loving was stronger than the missing.--Joseph Johnson on p. 233 Some Kind of Courage

Dan Gemeinhart

#17. The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.

James Edwin Gunn

#18. He'd learned quickly enough that when you cooked for a family, everybody was a critic.

Nora Roberts

#19. There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent, or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#20. She [Cressida] knows it is men's sexual desire that makes women "angels" before they have been able to possess them; once possessed, women are "things" [Troilus and Cressida I.2, 225-28, 233-34].

Tina Packer

#21. Tom said, "You should go. You could use a friend." It was not anything I had not thought myself. Still, hearing it aloud made me feel pitiable, and I had no wish to be, and so I...set off for a luncheon I did not much want to attend." p 233

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#22. As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: 'Make us laugh. Show us what you're made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.'

Trevor Noah

#23. The minute you feel secure about yourself and own the fact your dreams are honest true, other things fix themselves.

Shantel VanSanten