Autology Quotes & Sayings

And before you make the effort to give up smoking, take note that smoking cigarettes and cigars is excellent practice for being in Hell. AND before you make some snide remark, based on my general temperament, that I must be "riding the cotton pony" or suffering from a "red-letter day," need I remind you that I am dead, deceased, and rendered eternally prepubescent and therefore immune to the mindless reproductive biological imperatives that, no doubt, shape every living, breathing moment of your crummy living, breathing life. — Chuck Palahniuk

Pemex will remain 100 percent Mexican. — Enrique Pena Nieto

I couldn't escape the hell I was in; the push pull between hot & cold. Neither was better, just two extremes of the same pain. — Samantha Summers

Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as an absolutely lovely piece of furniture, even when it's empty, and if there's someone lying in it, it's really quite sublime in my eyes. — Thomas Mann

Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines. — William Batchelder Greene

You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't becoming"-Rhett Butler — Margaret Mitchell

It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one's exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy. — William Gaddis

When will you be brave enough to recognize your success story? — Andrea T. Goeglein

Man is saved if he opens himself to God and to others, even if he is not clearly aware that he is doing so. This is valid for Christians and non-Christians alike
for all people ... We can no longer speak properly of a profane world. A qualitative and intensive approach replaces a quantitative and extensive one. — Gustavo Gutierrez

Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself? — Douglas Hofstadter

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying. — Wynton Marsalis