Contemporary Quotations Quotes

#1. A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

James Mercer

#3. I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

Jules Renard

#4. Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

Harold Washington

#5. Men are born with a great asset of weak memory, especially for the bad moments. It's not the same with women though. Good or bad, they would keep the memories intact like permanent data in ROM.

Mita Jain

#6. Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#7. No'm he aint ill. Not unless laziness is a sickness. If it is, I'd say he's close to dying tomorrow.

Morgan Llywelyn

#8. A man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships; nonfiction is a way of coming to know the world of the mind.

Kelly Cherry

#10. What doesn't bend, breaks.

Ani DiFranco