Top 100 Quotes About Musings

#1. Opening a present from a live person was scary enough. There was always the chance that the gift might be so wrong, so completely not the kind of thing you liked, that you'd realize they didn't really know you at all.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#2. Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.

Ellen Lupton

#3. One of the notebooks was for musings and pep talks. ... The other notebooks were for writing out the novel the way authors had done for centuries.

Gail Godwin

#4. If you don't know history,
you don't know anything.
Edward Johnston

Richard Puz

#5. Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#6. I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.

Albert Camus

#7. Despite Tub's eye wound he never so much as stumbled, and I felt for the first time that we knew and understood each other; I sensed in him a desire to improve himself, which perhaps was whimsy or wishful thinking on my part, but such are the musings of the traveling man. The

Patrick DeWitt

#8. There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

Sophocles

#9. Ambition soars and also slithers

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#10. Why would God create people with all these desires and curiosities and then punish them for trying to satisfy them?

Belle Blackburn

#11. Wind waves on the lake break hard against the sharp rocks, but wash gently on sandy shores.

Tom Gillaspy

#12. Music makes promises to the heart that no
mere song could ever fulfill.

Jessa Callaver

#13. The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

R.D. Ronald

#14. Lies are living beings; once they get hold of you they never let go

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#15. Your greatest adventure is written inside of you

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#16. When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory of feelings and musings from which they can choose and infuse into their words and characters.

David Perry

#17. They said, Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?

Qur'an 2 30

#18. Leftie loosely is the way
to relax a set old screw
as rightie tightly thinks
new bullshit to pursue

Cornelia "Connie" DeDona

#19. Most things dopn't stay the way they are very long.

Richard Ford

#20. The polarized world: We're all in it together vs Me and Mine and to hell with everyone else.

William Hageman

#21. Children often have been likened to scientists. Both ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Both also ask innumerable questions that seem utterly trivial to others. Finally, both are granted by society the time to pursue their musings.

Robert S. Siegler

#22. The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

Shelby Lynne

#23. Out of them all, Socrates is the hardest to deconstruct ... Indeed, he may just be indeconstructible.

Martin Cohen

#24. Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned him, were slaves to the dark side. Vaguely, Luke wondered which side curiosity served.

Timothy Zahn

#25. Hey!" He snapped out of his musings as Destiny's hand trailed down his body to cup his less than interested cock through his trousers. "Claws to self, Vampira, I assume you brush your teeth twice a day but I have no idea where those hands of yours have been.

Jane Cousins

#26. No thought,no reflection,no analysis,no cultivation,no intention;let it settle itself.Relax "Tilopa

Tilopa

#27. Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

Lori Lansens

#28. A book is the one place you're permitted to feel emotion; anywhere else you're expected to be professional.
And you ask me why I like to read...

Suzanne Steele

#29. I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

Gore Vidal

#30. If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.

R.D. Ronald

#31. Never on painter's canvas lives
The charm of his fancy's dream.

L.M. Montgomery

#32. There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.

Bill Murray

#33. A happy reader is a sane reader
an unhappy one
well...not so much.

Suzanne Steele

#34. To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Michel Houellebecq

#35. A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence
-rassool jibraeel snyman

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#36. Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#37. When the words demand attention, they must be delivered!

K.C. Rhoads

#38. My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#39. Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#40. For the entire history of humanity, we have stared into fires, hypnotized by the twitch and flow of the blues and yellows. We see the stars of alien skies reflected in the coals and divine messages in the dance of the flames. Fire is magic.

Lance Conrad

#41. Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#42. Look at
how deeply flawed
we are

and yet
capable of loving
so perfectly.

Sanober Khan

#43. Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life.

Jay Woodman

#44. The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#45. Whether we are men dreaming we are butterflies or butterflies dreaming we are men, the one truth is that all life is an illusion. We are all wandering shades.

Jenifer Mohammed

#46. As the sun sets, something in me rises! Do you think it could be my soul? I feel it's a big probability!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#47. The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

Paul Ormerod

#48. Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?

Aysha Taryam

#49. Frustration is having a debate with a blind man on shades of red

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#50. A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls
when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

Kresley Cole

#51. The older we get, the more we become ourselves.

Alan Andrews

#52. What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

Edmund White

#53. Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.

R.D. Ronald

#54. Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do.

Shannon Winslow

#55. In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

Elizabeth Goudge

#56. He had an intrusive gaze and quietly confident manner, that seemed to strip away the layers of protective deception Scott would usually adopt around strangers.

R.D. Ronald

#57. How many times I have wondered what my fate might have been had I accompanied my parents that rainy spring morning. Such musings, I recognise, are more than a trifle insane, for envisioning what might have been had no more connection to our own true reality than a lunatic has to a lemon.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#58. In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

Ivan Turgenev

#59. The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.

Salley Vickers

#60. Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Anne Frank

#61. Everyone's broken, one way or another.

Max Barry

#62. Some people build houses others build people; of the two I would rather be of the latter

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#63. Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.

Linda Collison

#64. Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie

#65. You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

Glen Hansard

#66. People are no damn good.

William Steig

#67. Sometimes the answer is in the question.

Cristina Smith

#68. My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings

Peter Paul Rubens

#69. How much easier to produce moral musings than present the fresh challenge of the kingdom!

N. T. Wright

#70. Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that can be born out of thoughts and musings, and they link together pattern that define our lives.

Luci Swindoll

#71. Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Richard Ford

#72. Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

Guillermo Del Toro

#73. Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

Steve Martin

#74. If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

Palle Oswald

#75. Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.

R.D. Ronald

#76. Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy could never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting with from Camden-place to Westgate-buildings. It was almost enough to spread purification and perfume all the way.

Jane Austen

#77. Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#78. Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

#79. Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.

R.D. Ronald

#80. Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.

Walter Dean Myers

#81. A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#82. Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#83. The world of nature, at once a vision of exquisite beauty and an arena of brutal savagery, is a dynamic system of delicate balances.

S. Bradley Stoner

#84. Enough of thought, philosopher!
Too long hast thou been dreaming
Unlightened, in this chamber drear,
While summer's sun is beaming!
Space-sweeping soul, what sad refrain
Concludes thy musings once again?

Emily Bronte

#85. Sleep like you can never be dead
Dream as if you have a soul inside your head

Munia Khan

#86. Hope without fulfillment is more cruel than despair

Geraldine Harris

#87. It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#88. NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to manipulate language to expose the truth.

Jenifer Mohammed

#89. Readers are smart and they know how to read more than just a book; they know how to read their authors.

Suzanne Steele

#90. It's a cold sun that casts long shadows.

Christopher Carosa

#91. The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#92. Reflections, Musings and reviewing personal experiences through different angles of light... What is inside us is out there as well. (Zoltan Galos)

Z.J. Galos

#93. My boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality
just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

Alberto Moravia

#94. Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business

Martin Cohen

#95. And as anxious as he was to fulfill this vision, Pug knew that musings were rewarded after patient waiting because things always happen for a reason and not before the time is right.

Jackson Dunes

#96. If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#97. Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#98. When I write...
I open a vein and bleed for the masses
It's all I know...

Suzanne Steele

#99. It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#100. Progress is heading in a forward direction and realizing what was behind is now your legacy!

K.C. Rhoads

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