11367 Quotes & Sayings

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this. — Rush Limbaugh

I wasn't crying for myself. I was crying for the innocents. — Fisher Amelie

There's time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for - the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing. Time as white sound. — Margaret Atwood

The Baron told her that only art meant anything. — Edward Gorey

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. — David Hockney

All night I streched my arms across
him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing
with all my skin and bone 'Please keep him safe.
Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be
like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed
to pieces.' Makes a cathedral, him pressing against
me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I do believe
his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars. — Richard Siken

Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand. — Samuel Rutherford

Perhaps learning to speak is realizing, little by little, that we can say nothing about anything. — Valeria Luiselli

Nothing, surely, is so likely to prepare us for that heaven where Christ's personal presence will be all, and that glory where we shall meet Christ face to face, as to realize communion with Christ, as an actual living Person here on earth. There is all the difference in the world between an idea and a person. — J.C. Ryle

Instead of swinging back and forth between individual points of truth, each piece we learn should build upon another to bring us closer to the full truth. — Amy Layne Litzelman

where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. — Nikos Kazantzakis

With the canal, the cost of shipping a ton of flour from Buffalo to New York City fell from $120 a ton to $6 a ton, and the carrying time was reduced from three weeks to just over one. The effect on New York's fortunes was breathtaking. Its share of national exports leaped from less than 10 percent in 1800 to over 60 percent by the middle of the century; in the same period, even more dazzlingly, its population went from ten thousand to well over half a million. — Bill Bryson

Are you a passenger on a ghost ship or are you the pilot? — Chris Hardwick

Culture becomes visible when we travel between " cultures " and when we look back in time to other " cultures " than our own. — Michael Ryan