637 quotes found
“By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.”
“All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.”
“were all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large cant tell which is which”
“There is only one sin, only one, and that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right of a husband, you rob his children of ...”
“I learned many things about human nature, but one of the greatest is the nobility inherent within us all, for one of the greatest things about being human is the ability to be humane”
“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?”
“Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that's what witches are - human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That's just you.”
“Should a traveler, returning from a far country, bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted, men who were entirely divested of avarice, ambition, or reve...”
“Its easy to lie, but hard to confess”
“Very little of what he learned of peoples actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comfo...”
“I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. Its a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.”
“If manifestations of her love are overwhelming and sometimes seem imprudent, its because the intensity of such caring doesnt exist in other areas of life. Ma does not love from behind a protective ...”
“A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.”
“Why are they like that?' I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek.'I don't know,' Cico answered, 'except that people, grown-ups and kids, se...”
“Doesn't there, in fact, exist something that is dearer to almost every man than his own very best interests, or - not to violate logic - some best good ... which is more important and higher than a...”
“At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.”
“If people would take me seriously, Id never find out anything significant about them.”
“Love is a sentiment precipitated by an illusionary excitement which seldom fades away leaving the victims in utter hope and distraction to love and be loved in return”
“Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions.”
“I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite.”
