Before This Year Ends Quotes & Sayings

I lack the imagination. For that reason I have to pack, stuff into my pockets odds and ends, passport, money, and go see what it's really like. Whenever the time of year or the weather changes, I have to pack up whatever I can't do without and visit all those places I've been before, to make sure they still exist — Andrzej Stasiuk

The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts. — Jessica Valenti

Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them. — Alan Moore

Do not be astonished to see simple people believing without argument. God makes them love him and hate themselves. He inclines their hearts to believe. We shall never believe, with an effective belief and faith, unless God inclines our hearts. — Blaise Pascal

I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot. — Adam Ferrara

I'm not sure that I'll be able to do everything that I did before. — Kylie Minogue

It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention. — Hans Jonas

Love, he decided, is not about how much someone else cares for you, it's about how much you care for someone else. — Marcus Sedgwick

I can't express the truth about reality. I can only express my feelings. — Debasish Mridha

Eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness. — Italo Calvino

If there was one thing that life has taught me, it's to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness. — Anne-Laure Bondoux

Alexandre Dumas wrote those lines when he had just turned forty-five and had decided it was time to reflect on his life. He never got past chronicling his thirty-first year - which was well before he had published a word as a novelist - yet he spent more than the first two hundred pages on a story that is as fantastic as any of his novels: the life of his father, General Alexandre - Alex - Dumas, a black man from the colonies who narrowly survived the French Revolution and rose to command fifty thousand men. The chapters about General Dumas are drawn from reminiscences of his mother and his father's friends, and from official documents and letters he obtained from his mother and the French Ministry of War. It is a raw and poignant attempt at biography, full of gaps, omissions, and re-creations of scenes and dialogue. But it is sincere. The story of his father ends with this scene of his death, the point at which the novelist begins his own life story. — Tom Reiss

People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us. — Trevor D. Richardson