Hatever Quotes

#1. [W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Ayelet Waldman

#2. Hatever happens in life helps make us who we're meant to be and leads us to people we're meant to meet

R.D. Cole

#3. The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. When

Adam Smith

#4. As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.

Alberto Manguel

#5. All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

Smiley Blanton

#6. If you're willing to live in a cardboard box on the streets with him, then marry him.

Lori Colombo-Dunham

#7. You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.

Michael Beckwith

#8. Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.

Peter York

#9. Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

Don Everts

#10. Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#11. A reward-sensitive person is highly motivated to seek rewards - from a promotion to a lottery jackpot to an enjoyable evening out with friends. Reward sensitivity motivates us to pursue goals like sex and money, social status and influence.

Susan Cain

#12. For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

Scott Adams

#13. The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

John Webster

#14. But I don't think of you.

Ayn Rand

#15. I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

Alanis Morissette