Adjuncts Disjuncts Quotes & Sayings

He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger and reaction — Timothy B. Tyson

All his life there was only one thing Lec was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same stifling softness as the layers of insulation around him now. For the first time in his life, Lev feels those bounds around his soul begin to loosen. — Neal Shusterman

How convenient if you could see what was wrong with people right away, if they wore their sicknesses and crimes on their skin like tattoos. — Lauren Oliver

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us. — Arthur Alfred Lynch

I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late. — Hunter S. Thompson

Wow, this puts the sweet in Sweet Jesus. — David Levithan

Better for things to fall apart a little now, while you can still put them back together, than for you to wait until there's no hope. — Noelle Adams

Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless. — Andrew Young

I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women. — Zach Galifianakis

I knew about some experience on the operational part of the CIA with Latin American services and so forth having to do with torture. But this was the first time that the CIA was openly advocating for permission to be able to torture. And that seemed to me so abhorrent that I wanted to disassociate myself from the CIA for the first time since 1963, because I didn't want to be associated in any way, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture. — Ray McGovern

You may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing. I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing. — Howard Warren Buffett

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish. — Chuck Palahniuk

Writers must constantly ask: what I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know. — William Zinsser