Untallied Quotes

#1. The story of the world is not the story of coups and revolutions. It is the story of lost keys and burnt coffee and a sleeping child in your arms. History is the untallied sum of a million everyday moments.

Eric Weiner

#2. With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

Jane Austen

#3. The undistracted experience of affects of just about any sort, when free of practical consequences, appears to have intrinsic appeal for many of us.

Jenefer Robinson

#4. My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

Phyllis George

#5. What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.

Martin Buber

#6. Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

Charles James Fox

#7. And I am right where I am because of His plan for my life.

Jeanne Stone Helstrom

#8. I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.

Debra Messing

#9. I'm supposed to be a man but I can't help thinking no one ever showed me what that is supposed to look like. Maybe that is why I ride the middle all the time - never offending anyone, never getting a hard time, but never much standing out either.

Heather Duffy Stone

#10. Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear.

Christina Engela

#11. My emotions split into an unsolvable jigsaw puzzle. I was smooth edges, crooked edges, and awkward corner edges.
I was cutthroat and fierce, betrayer and deceiver, loved and lover.

Pepper Winters

#12. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Max Beckmann

#13. If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

Andrew Vachss

#14. I want to take a lot of Nasty photos.

Daido Moriyama

#15. Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

Freya Stark

#16. In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

Frank Bruni