Prais'd Quotes

#1. For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Alexander Pope

#2. Playing it safe is sometimes the most dangerous thing you can do.

Tony Cane-Honeysett

#3. Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a moment of being vulnerable and girlish.

Lisa Kudrow

#4. By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

Noam Chomsky

#5. We are all aware that evolution happens, because we all have parents.

Bill Nye

#6. You have been second always. Tragical?
No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

Ezra Pound

#7. If this becomes a negotiation by diplomats, it will never be resolved. We need to keep this among scientists. Space

Andy Weir

#8. Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

Sam Harris

#9. But I'm not dead!" Tereza cried. "I can still feel!"
"So can we," the corpses laughed.

Milan Kundera

#10. All glory to Adonai!
Great is thy love.
Great is thy mercy.
Great is thy faithfulness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

Louisa May Alcott

#12. Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

Moshe Dayan

#13. You're a first-class bastard, Doug." This time he grinned because he'd heard the light trace of respect. "I like first class, Whitney. I'm going to live there the rest of my life.

Nora Roberts

#14. What's on your mind, Derek? she whispered.
"You ... " I saw no reason to lie " ... how I can't imagine life without you.

Bella Forrest

#15. I just want to think deeply about things. Contemplate ideas in a pure, free sort of way. That's all. If you think about it, that's kind of like constructing a vacuum.

Haruki Murakami

#16. [ ... ] But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered tomorrow. No matter if you and I are slaughtered." After a moment, he added, "I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go spinning with it.

Kristin Cashore

#17. The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.

Anuj