cool quotes and sayings for girls
Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation. ~Author Unknown
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~Don Quixote
Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord.
Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up. ~Author Unknown
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy
A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein
Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control. ~Donna Gephart
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. ~Rene Dubos, quoted in Life, 28 July 1970
I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy. ~Bern Williams
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence." ~Holbrook Jackson
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. ~Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932
We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965
We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965
Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now!
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. ~Napoleon Hill
Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
Sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Jean-Luc Picard, Stardate 42823.2
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. ~Theodore Dreiser, 1941
You could move. ~Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood
