262805 Quotes

#1. Is it splendid, or stupid, to take life seriously?

Gustave Flaubert

#2. Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

Evagrius Ponticus

#3. Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Sallust

#4. The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return to their war work now extolled elaborate recipes which women could attempt if they stayed home and vacated jobs for men.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#5. Some are born Welsh. Some achieve Welshness. I am going to thrust myself upon Wales.

Jasper Rees

#6. I wouldn't know Robbie Williams if I fell over him.

John Barry

#7. I do think trying to live each day as a bunch of moral occasions, did I live up to what I would hope, and, if I didn't, what can I do tomorrow to be a little better, I do think we can improve. We get better at life as we get older.

David Brooks

#8. The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.

Tullian Tchividjian

#9. That was the same week my physics teacher taught my class the concept of infinity. I cried about it every night for months.

Vendela Vida

#10. It is lonesome, yes. For we are the last of the loud. Nevertheless, live. Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#11. People you love aren't defined by objects, but by the place they hold in your heart.

Lindy Zart

#12. You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.

Pamela Adlon

#13. Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

John Milton