Balcomb Greene Quotes & Sayings

We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those tales that evolve endlessly into other tales, stories have no end. They are hardly ever the stories you know, the official ones, in which wishes are made formal, then legislated and enforced as matters of life or death. They are more often the stories we didn't hear, or wouldn't believe, told by the person we ignored, the house that was razed, the choir of dry bones. The scholars of Heaven read and study the vast collection of ashes, books from the torched libraries. — Patricia Storace

The basis of spiritual renewal is not the guilt feelings that frequently arise in sensitized individuals in rich industrial societies. Instead, it is a crazy mysticism of becoming empty that reduces the real misery of the poor and diminishes one's own slavery. Becoming empty or "letting go" of the ego, possession, and violence is the precondition of the creativity of transforming action. — Dorothee Solle

for you never deigned to believe that I could, without any specific designs, ever crave to bury my face in your plaid skirt, my darling! — Vladimir Nabokov

These B***hes Couldn't Test Me Even If Their Name Was Pop Quiz — Nicki Minaj

Life gives you a chance and lots of opportunities to drop it, you might be either the best one or the rest one, choice is all yours. — M.H. Rakib

Now I understand that this passion for pain, even in the torture of martyrdom, represents the haste and impatience to no longer be interrupted and disturbed by the evil that can come from this side (meaning this life). — Lou Andreas-Salome

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters. — Jane Campion

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters. — Kurt Eichenwald

But was it wrong to put yourself first? That's called survival, right? If you're running for your life, you don't get the luxury of being nice. They were going to learn that. It's fine to wave the pompoms for teamwork - all for one and one for all - but when push came to shove, these guys wouldn't be risking their lives for Chloe, maybe not even for each other. I was sure of it. Once things got worse, it would be every kid for himself. It always is. — Kelley Armstrong

Life is full of circles — J.D. Robb