Wordesk Quotes

#1. Real life, however, begins when I die to the false god that is me.

John Ortberg

#2. My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

J.M. Coetzee

#3. I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.

Rick Scott

#4. When the storm comes,
the short-sighted get soaked,
the intelligent run for cover,
and the prudent pull out their umbrellas.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.

Luke Hemmings

#6. But there was no sign of the bomb in the market. Like all other tragedies, it had been covered up; the market had gone into a huddle of concrete and commerce around the blast, paving over the scars like a jungle coming back over a burnt field

Karan Mahajan

#7. way the Capitol shows it on television, but there's next to no life aboveground. In the seventy-five

Suzanne Collins

#8. Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

Frederick Lenz

#9. I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#10. The problem with representation in the media has very much to do with the conflicts between groups in the world. If you talk about Iraq, al Qaeda, Darfur, even Taiwan, representation is a part of that problem.

Arthur Dong