Life Quotes

You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Nature abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure.

Alan Bradley

Feel free to scream, whisper, and everything in between. I want to hear it all.

Kristen Hope Mazzola

The call goes forth, and is at once followed by the response of obedience. The response of the disciples is an act of obedience, not a confession of faith in Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you don't do doggy, you don't do demon

J.C. McKenzie

(A) trip to the attic is an excursion into history, and...all over the world the present unravels beneath the stored detritus of the past; that's what attics are for.

Valerie Martin

(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.

Valerie Martin

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

Lionel Shriver

What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We personally grew. Gratitude for this growth is an appropriate response. Gratitude, and being careful never to...

George Saunders

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Sigmund Freud

Please do not think that I am accusing socialists of insincerity or that I wish to hold them up to scorn either as bad democrats or as unprincipled schemers and opportunists. I fully believe, in spite of the childish Machiavellism in which some of th...

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

Frank Herbert

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

Richard J Foster

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his slo...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a...

Sigmund Freud

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

Idries Shah

Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. Let go. You need to drift away." It was the first time I had relinquished my will ...

Charlaine Harris

I will not let them harm you. I will protect you 'till my last breath.

Jalpa Williby

...People so often ignored their gut because of social niceties and expectations. Luckily Dax didn't have that issue; he was barely fucking civilized.

Katie Reus

He was so damn sexy, with beautiful bronzed skin that showed off his Mediterranean heritage.

Katie Reus