Astrachan Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you want to forget the fact that you're alone, and instead, you want to relish the feeling that someone understands you, someone is fighting the same battle that you are. Also, you know, sometimes you just want to feel wanted and desired. Sometimes you want to feel what it feels like with someone new. Sometimes you forget about whether you're ready to do something, and you just let yourself do it. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability. — D.T. Suzuki

In the beginning there was a war. Before there were men or green fields or the untamed sea. Before there was anything at all, before Time existed, there was a terrible war. A war that these beings you saw today lost. The Archangel Michael, with the Sword mortal men would name Excalibur, cast them down for their transgression against the throne of heaven. — Rick Yancey

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others. — Pope Francis

Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots. — Murray Rothbard

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. — Calvin Coolidge

How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and ... ' than 'Yes, but ... '. — Lawrence Fagg

We're all imaginary friends to one another, — Jim Butcher

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other. — Mark Twain

Nothing is therefore more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, forced by its very nature to unfold, nourished by the fantastic visions of poetry, gives shape to a whole order of creatures of which we are the lowliest, and everything around us seems to be more glorious, everyone else more perfect ... If, on the other hand, we can make up our minds to go about our daily tasks, resigned to our feelings, and hardships, we often find that, in spite of our meanderings and procrastinations, we have gone farther than quite a few others have gone with their sails unfurled and steering gear functioning. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it. — Karen Joy Fowler