Mthis Essential Selection Quotes

#1. Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

C.S. Lewis

#2. The hell with virtue. I've figured out the mechanics of her dress.

Audrey Niffenegger

#3. I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

Erin Morgenstern

#4. The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Marty Meehan

#5. You can only stare at a clown mask so long. After a few minutes it's no big deal anymore. So people start paying attention to the music instead of what the clown is doing, or what he is wearing, or how cool his spikey hair is.

Paul Gray

#6. Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.

Richard Hatch

#7. I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?

Jane Elliot

#8. I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.

Britt Ekland

#9. The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.

Kabir

#10. I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

Nevil Shute

#11. What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.

Peter Capaldi

#12. Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games.

Barnaby Conrad

#13. We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh

Sunday Adelaja

#14. d'Artagnan is right," said Athos; "here are our three leaves of absence which came from Monsieur de Treville, and here are three hundred pistoles which came from I don't know where. So let us go and get killed where we are told to go. Is life worth the trouble of so many questions?

Alexandre Dumas

#15. When I say my brother and his wife are heterosexual, that doesn't mean I'm talking about their sex lives. Likewise, when we say someone is gay, we're talking about sexual orientation, not their sexual activity.

Vito Russo