Sayest Quotes

#1. Know, then," said he, "that I myself am the destiny - the demon, as thou sayest, by whom I am persecuted and destroyed, that my conscience is loaded with guilt, nay, with the stain of a shameful, infamous, and mortal crime,

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#2. Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?

William Shakespeare

#3. Aye, say thou fool? Then fool, good Sir, am I.
But when thou sayest fool remember well
That fools do walk in foolish company.
So if I am a fool, perhaps 'tis true
That other fools around me may be found.

Ian Doescher

#4. Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

Meister Eckhart

#5. My unassisted heart is barren clay, That of its native self can nothing feed: Of good and pious works Thou art the seed, That quickens only where Thou sayest it may: Unless Thou show to us Thine own true way No man can find it: Father! Thou must lead. These words will repay

A.W. Tozer

#6. He who seeketh may easily get lost himself. All isolation is wrong": so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. The voice of the herd will still echo in thee. And when thou sayest, "I have no longer a conscience in common with you," then will it be a plaint and a pain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. A teacher instructs;
a student absorbs.
A book is a companion;
a good one, a messiah.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.

Monica Bellucci

#9. Being confused about choices is nothing more than hoping that maybe there is a way to get through life without taking charge.

Meg Jay

#10. Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.

Ray Davies

#11. The creator is not puritan. A creature need not work for a living; creatures may simply steal and suck and be blessed for all that with a share - an enormous share - of the sunlight and air.

Annie Dillard

#12. TV always wants more people to be watching.

Aisha Tyler

#13. Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

Alan Watts

#14. I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.

Sandra Cisneros

#15. Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...

Hannah More

#16. Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs.

Ralph Cudworth

#17. Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

Hallie Ephron

#18. Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work."
Shay shrugged. "Being a bird's probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?

Scott Westerfeld

#19. Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

Ernest Mandel

#20. Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Rupert Everett

#21. The Seanchan fight the Shadow.
-message from Dragon Reborn to Egwene

Robert Jordan