Comes Quotes - page 31

It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth. (J. M. Coetzee)
Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Theres a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever. View quote
Peter Senge
The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow. View quote
Pia Zadora
I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists. View quote
Salvador Allende
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs. View quote
Werner Herzog
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism. View quote
Werner Herzog
Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new. View quote
Salman Rushdie
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness – when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be. View quote
J. B. Priestley
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine. (Richard Dawkins)
May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last! View quote
John Henry Newman
Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes. View quote
Sarah Orne Jewett
Donald Trump tells us that he is very, very smart. I'm afraid that when it comes to foreign policy he is very, very not smart. View quote
Mitt Romney
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you. View quote
Edwidge Danticat
When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore? View quote
Lisa Randall
So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of surprises. View quote
Erma Bombeck
I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well. View quote
John McAfee
Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade. (Confucius)
I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. View quote
Pearl Bailey
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top."). View quote
Terry Pratchett