Datable Quotes

#1. Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity.

Mark Twain

#2. It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once only; it is contemporary with all times, but not in the way that a timeless myth would be.

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

Rita Ora

#4. By dwelling mentally on the situation, event, or person that is the perceived cause of the emotion, the thought feeds energy to the emotion, which in turn energizes the thought pattern, and so on.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. Forget the girl who had everything. She died when her father did."
"But I--"
"Nothing is where you start. Own nothing. Know nothing."
"But why would I want to do that?"
His smile made her smile in return.
"Because then you can do anything.

Jay Kristoff

#6. There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#7. No, you don't have to live inside my head. For every, just, insanely stupid thing I do or say, there are like fifty even worse ones that I just barely avoid doing or saying, just out of dumb luck.

Jesse Andrews

#8. Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.

Kathleen Hanna

#9. Fitzgerald was a modernist.

Baz Luhrmann

#10. At about this time the Asiatic wolf, a fierce predator that despite its small size would eat a human if it had the opportunity, came under human control because its friendly young cubs could be fed and trained. A dangerous adversary was turned into a dedicated helper - the dog.

Mark Kurlansky

#11. So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

Dalai Lama