Most Quotes (page 309)

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• powerful
• determination
• power

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. Rene Descartes

• patience
• today
• may

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl. -In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis Harry Emerson Fosdick

• fear
• people
• words

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." - Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky

• imagination
• drug
• me

Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined. Angela Carter

• life
• good
• literature

Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life. Aldous Huxley

• different
• real man
• manly

The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. Friedrich Nietzsche

• manly
• attitude
• religious

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. Albert Einstein

• small
• women
• winter

It takes years to marry completely two hearts, even of the most loving and well-assorted. A happy wedlock is a long falling in love. Men and women marry fractionally, now a small and then a larger fraction... Such a long and sweet fruit needs a long summer to ripen in and a long winter to season in. But real and happy marriage is one of those things so handsome that if the sun were, as the Greek poets fabled it, a god, he might stop the world and hold it still now and then to feast his... Theodore Parker

• ultimate
• gift
• giving

Giving, not trading or selling, is the basis of success. The most rewarding thing you can do is just to give the world something good. And ultimately you will be paid so much more for that gift than it you had tried to trade it for something else. Russell Simmons

• repugnant
• mostly
• bastards

[T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus. Roland Barthes

• fitness
• little
• manly

What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused. Douglas Adams

• mindfulness
• satan
• mind

And then the most evil idea came to me. The idea came to me unbidden as if there really were a Satan in the world and that Satan had come crawling along the stone floor towards me and put the idea in my mind. Anne Rice

• issues
• decide
• the most important

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs. Napoleon Bonaparte

• fighting
• women
• sharing

You know the story in the bible? The one with the king and the two women fighting over the baby? Sure King Solomon. That's right, king solomon he said, cut the kid in half... but it was only a test. Just to see who would give up their share to protect it... Well, I'm not going to cut you in half anymore. He was telling me that he loved me the most, that his surrender proved it. Stephenie Meyer

• giving
• motivational
• love

Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most. Danielle Steel