Top 100 Sage It Quotes
#1. Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage- it is called Self; it dwells in your body, it is your body.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage - it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body. There
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.
Krishnananda Saraswati
#4. What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.
Laozi
#5. It gave Boy 412 the impression that Aunt Zelda had walked into a large patchwork tent and had just, that very minute, poked her head out of the top to see what was going on.
Angie Sage
#6. It's a tricky art, working with them in their purest form," she mused. "Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex." It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.
Richelle Mead
#7. I wanted to forget you, too," Sage said morosely. "Even now, I still do. With you right here in front of me. Even after last night. It still hurts to think about when you left. How it felt to be so alone. How much I don't want to care about you anymore.
Sibylla Matilde
#8. Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was sage from hatred and disappointment and death.
Nancy Farmer
#9. She continue kissing me with that ferocity, so much so that her lips lightly scraped my teeth. It was only a few drops, but as the sweet metallic taste of her blood touched my tongue, a blinding ecstasy flooded my body.
Richelle Mead
#10. You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. It would be tedious to attempt a phonetic reproduction of Mr. Sage's utterances. Enough to say that they were genteel to a fantastic degree. "Aye thot Aye heeard somewon teeking may neem in veen," may give some idea of his rendering of the above sentence. Let it go at that.
Anonymous
#12. Sage: "Conner's held you down for so long, you've forgotten what it's like to breathe free air."
Imogen: "And you've given your life to his control forever. You'll never breathe free air again.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#13. This is a breakthrough to science! How can I destroy it? It is beautiful! I have never encountered an unequally conjoined twin that was alive!"
Dr. Lisa Sen The Malevolent Twin
Mary Sage Nguyen
#14. Organizations must create a culture in which it is acceptable that everyone has more to do than he or she can do, and in which it is sage to renegotiate agreements about what everyone is not doing.
David Allen
#15. The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion.
Ken Wilber
#16. We are not separate from spirit, we are within it." -Plotinus, ancient Greek Sage & Mystic
Sara Rider
#17. Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn't inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings.
Richelle Mead
#18. Shouting something didn't make it any more possible.
Angie Sage
#19. Well, I suggest you sleep on it," said Aunt Zelda sensibly. "Things always look better in the morning.
Angie Sage
#20. Is it true?" She asked. "Do you have a date?"
"For the love of-you know it's true! And you told Adrian didn't you?
Richelle Mead
#21. Foreshadowing is like playing cat and mouse. If done properly, it can be used to compel the reader to read on.
Mary Sage Nguyen
#22. Nothing he said could change what I think of you. I've had my mind made up about you for a long time ... and it's all good.
Richelle Mead
#23. In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
Beryl Markham
#24. But when I touch you, your aura ... it smolders. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydney?" He used that hand to pull me closer. "Why do you react that way if I don't mean anything to you?" There was a desperation in his voice, and it was legitimate.
Richelle Mead
#25. At first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deep it smelled like sage, my favorite smell I went up on the plateau to watch it come to see the gifts it always brought but this rain changed from blue to black and left nothing.
Ally Condie
#26. Hello," I said stiffly.
His smile split into a full grin."So nice to see you again."
"Always a pleasure." My lie sounded robotic, but hopefully it was better than sounding afraid.
"No,no," he said. "The pleasure's all mine."
"If you say so,"I said.
Richelle Mead
#27. The world is exploding in emerald, sage, and lusty chartreuse - neon green with so much yellow in it. It is an explosive green that, if one could watch it moment by moment throughout the day, would grow in every dimension.
Amy Seidl
#28. The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.
Confucius
#29. You're a terrible liar, Sage, but I'm still touched you'd attempt it for my
sake. A for effort.
Richelle Mead
#30. What is it with you and girls, Adrian, dear? Why do they either mean nothing to you or everything? It's always an extreme."
"Because I don't do things in halves, mom. Especially when it comes to love.
Richelle Mead
#31. All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.
Samuel Johnson
#32. Ask any honest sage if they were an expert at something the first time they tried it, and they'll giggle and probably give you a caramel.
Jon Acuff
#33. Standardized state tests are a scam! The educational system is rigged. It is set up to where the wealthy schools, get all of the state funding. The poverty-stricken schools, don't get enough funding due to standardized tests scores. See my point?
Mary Sage Nguyen
#34. The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.
Jason Chaffetz
#35. Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do so is their TAO. But it is not from extensive study that this may be known, nor by dialectical skill that his may be made clear. The true sage will have none of these.
Zhuangzi
#36. He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?"
There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.
Richelle Mead
#37. My mind ... It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered with.
Richelle Mead
#38. I could see her toughening up, working hard to put all those emotions away because she thought that's what it meant to
be strong. I wanted to tell her that strength wasn't about hiding your feelings, that it was okay for her to feel this way after what she'd been through.
Richelle Mead
#39. Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
#40. Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#41. You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.
Angie Sage
#42. When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive?
Sage Francis
#43. Pleased to meet you." Sage said, offering his hand. "The pleasure is all mine," Rayna Purred. "Unless ofcourse, it's all Clea's which is even better."
Sage smiled and might have even blushed a bit, which was highly entertaining.
Hilary Duff
#44. They could have fought against it, begged for another way or gone off the path in hopes of finding an easier passage. Instead, they looked upon the trail ahead, the rough ridge, now bound by thick snow, and they accepted the path they had chosen.
Sage Steadman
#45. It is nice to be nice," said Kamala with a sage nod. "And it is also nice to eat people.
Roshani Chokshi
#46. Sententious sage! so it is: but I swear by my household gods not
Charlotte Bronte
#47. Okay," she drew out. "Let me rephrase that. Did you sleep with Sage yet?"
I blushed furiously.
She smacked my leg and exclaimed, "I knew it! I could smell it on you."
"You can smell it on me?"
She grinned. "When I was hugging you, yeah. Your chest smelled like cologne and man tongue.
Karina Halle
#48. Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days.
Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.
Richelle Mead
#49. If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large.
Alberto Villoldo
#50. The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage.
Zhuangzi
#51. Ah Ratty, what good times we'll have," said Mad Jack. "Just you and me, Ratty. We'll go cuttin' them reeds together, and if you're good we'll go to the circus when it comes to town and see the clowns. I love them clowns, Ratty. We'll have a good life together. Yes we will. Oh yes.
Angie Sage
#52. You're presumptuous and arrogant and a whole lot of other things if you think I've changed my mind."
"You see, that's just it." There he was again, moving into my space. "I think you like the 'other things.
Richelle Mead
#53. PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics. Its protagonist, Sage, is unique, magical, and haunting.
Kate Wilhelm
#54. Whether it's simply some fierce animal
joining of mates or a sublime merging
of souls, she is mine, and I am hers.
Richelle Mead
#55. Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you're becoming a star performer in the show.
Richelle Mead
#56. If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.
Gretel Ehrlich
#57. Don't keep saying 'huh', Silas. It makes you sound so crotchety." "Well, maybe I am crotchety. And I'll keep saying 'huh' if I want to, Sarah. Huh.
Angie Sage
#58. Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.
Frances Mayes
#59. The artist thing is just natural. If that comes out, the music, the songs, I need some actual time which I dedicate to it. But I don't have to sit down eight hours a day in order to get out what I need to create. That is just always bubbeling inside and than evetually it just comes out.
Sage Francis
#60. Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.
Thales
#61. Above all else, I think that you are a compulsive liar."
My laughter was tense, but sincere. "Hardly. In fact, I consider myself a compulsive truth teller. It's only that everyone else seems compelled to misunderstand me.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#62. Is it that people need a vacation from their problems, or is it actually they need a vacation from other people.
Sage R. Fury
#63. And besides . . . I don't want to leave you. Er, you guys."
He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. "Well, 'we' are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I'm also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you're in St. Louis."
I grinned back.
Richelle Mead
#64. Look upon him who shows you your faults as a revealer of treasure: seek his company who checks and chides you, the sage who is wise in reproof: it fares well and not ill with him who seeks such company.
Gautama Buddha
#65. The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#66. It is an American weakness. The success becomes the sage. Scientists counsel on civil liberty; comedians and actresses lead political rallies; athletes tell us what brand of cigarette to smoke.
Robert Leckie
#67. He shook his head. "No. Because there's no one else out there who understands you like I do."
I waited for more. "That's it? You're not going to elaborate on what that means?"
Those green eyes held me. "I don't think I need to.
Richelle Mead
#68. And that's the thing, I think ... the real reason I'm not that weirded out by you two. It goes against all sound logic, but somehow, you two together ... it just works.
Richelle Mead
#69. I guess I just had trouble shaking that
feeling that I had to take care of everything because no one else could do it right.
Richelle Mead
#70. It was really difficult to believe you had a right to argue when you were confronted by wise-looking men telling you that you did not.
Sage Blackwood
#71. Anytime a sage displays humanness - in regard to money, food, sex, relationships - we are shocked, shocked, because we are planning to escape life altogether, not live it, and the sage who lives life offends us.
Ken Wilber
#72. I realized I'm in love. It's always been right in front of me.
Richelle Mead
#73. She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts?
Sage Steadman
#74. Maybe we're not doing it, but believe me, Sage, there are plenty of other ways to pass the time.
Richelle Mead
#75. We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That's what she did. It was bad judgment, that's all. You don't cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.
Richelle Mead
#76. Don't do that? This is your sage advice?"
"Yeah." He burped and blew it out the side of his mouth. "Sorry, the burritos we had for lunch are kinda comin' back on me.
Mary Calmes
#77. Nice blouse, Sage," Adrian told me, deadpan. "It really brings out the khaki in your pants.
Richelle Mead
#79. Sage," he said. "What are you wearing?"
I sighed and stared down at the dress. "I know. It's red. Don't start. I'm tired of hearing about it."
"Funny," he said. "I don't think I could ever get tired of looking at it.
Richelle Mead
#80. It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#81. It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
Baltasar Gracian
#82. He swallows, his Adam's apple bobbing on his thick neck and I briefly imagine what it's like to bite him there, just a small nibble or two. I bet he tastes like sage and testosterone.
Karina Halle
#83. It's Kahlua, Sage. Packed with sugar and coffee flavor.
Richelle Mead
#84. Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?"
"Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary
Richelle Mead
#85. If it's advisable to never share own problems with others as sages say that majority don't care, then it's more sensible to never brag of own achievements as their attitude is likely to remain the same.
Anuj
#86. Open it at that sad madrigal that begins "Que m'importe que tu sois sage? Sois belle! et sois triste" and you will find yourself worshiping sorrow as you never worshiped joy.
Oscar Wilde
#87. Oh dear," said Sarah anxiously, "I do wish he wouldn't do these silly things."
I'm sure we all wish that, Sarah," said Marcia sternly. "But unfortunately he has progressed rather further than the silly stage. Evil-minded-scheming stage is more what I would call it.
Angie Sage
#88. Therefore the sage holds in his embrace the one thing (of humility), and manifests it to all the world.
Lao-Tzu
#89. Take it,' hisses DomDaniel. 'But I will be back for it. I will be back with the seventh of the seventh.
Angie Sage
#90. What's this? It looks like a lily."
"It is," he said. "No offense, but this lily is
kind of more badass than yours. If the Alchemists
want to buy the rights to this and
start using it, I'm willing to negotiate.
Richelle Mead
#91. It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.
Tom Rath
#92. Well ... I'm on birth control"
I was drinking the water again and choked on it. It took several moments of coughing before I could gasp out. "What?"
"It takes a while for it to start working, so I figured I should be prepared, just in case."
"Just in case," I repeated, still dumbfounded.
Richelle Mead
#93. Life is just a lie with an 'F' in it, and death is definite
Sage Francis
#94. Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.
Sage Francis
#95. The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#96. Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#97. Wow," said Adrian. He sat down on the bed and tested its bounciness, giving it a nod of approval. "This is amazing. What do you think, buttercup?"
"I have no words," I said honestly.
He patted the spot beside him. "Want to try it out?
Richelle Mead
#98. Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
Robert Burns
#99. You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school."
"Oh I believe it," I said, thinking back to the time Angeline had forgotten her locker's combination and tried to get into it with an axe.
No one was really sure where she'd gotten it from.
Richelle Mead
#100. Things," Aunt Zelda reminded everyone on the bridge, "are not always as they seem. Remember, the moon always shows the truth How we see it, is up to us to us, not the moon
Angie Sage