398 Quotes & Sayings

To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself. — Storm Jameson

But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?
398 — Hilary Mantel

Ask yourself this question: at the end of your life, is it really going to matter how many Likes you got? — Craig Groeschel

396. Patience is a Virtue every where; but it shines with great Lustre in the Men of Government.
397. Some are so Proud or Testy, they won't hear what they should redress.
398. Others so weak, they sink or burst under the weight of their Office, though they can lightly run away with the Salary of it. — William Penn

Smog hung all round the horizon, the sun on the bright beige countryside was painful; she and the Chevy seemed parked at the centre of an odd, religious instant. As if, on some other frequency, or out of the eye of some whirlwind rotating too slow for her heated skin even to feel the centrifugal coolness of, words were being spoken. — Thomas Pynchon

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us — Paul McCartney

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper. — Moliere

On the side of Mount Calamon a grove of glass flowers grows. The journey there is perilous, and the journey back is more so. — Neil Gaiman

And don't even suggest that these would be better off in Tiercel's hands. No, Tiercel has other things to do with his life. You, on the other hand, get to protect him. And guess what that makes you?"
"Stupid?" Harrier suggested. "Suicidal?"
"A Knight-Mage!" the unicorn cried cheerfully. — Mercedes Lackey