Blums Quotes & Sayings

Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness. — Lord Chesterfield

The night lifted, leaving behind it a grayish light the color of stagnant water. Soon there was only a tattered fragment of darkness, hanging in mid-air, the other side of the window. Fear caught my throat. The tattered fragment of darkness had a face. The face was my own. — Elie Wiesel

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past. — Mike Ditka

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! — John Belushi

What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France. — Timur

My job means I work late. — Adam Levine

I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in uncertainty: Was it a civil war? A war of national liberation or simple aggression? Who started it, and when, and why? What really happened to the USS Maddox on that dark night in the Gulf of Tonkin? Was Ho Chi Minh a Communist stooge, or a nationalist savior, or both, or neither? What about the Geneva Accords? What about SEATO and the Cold War? What about dominoes? America was divided on these and a thousand other issues, and the debate had spilled out across the floor of the United States Senate and into the streets, and smart men in pinstripes could not agree on even the most fundamental matters of public policy. The only certainty that summer was moral confusion. — Tim O'Brien

And I feared that death picks up where life left off. An endless barrage of unbearable obstacles. A godforsaken terrain where lost souls find even less mercy. A shattered dreamstate where every somnambulant second is plagued by the nightmarish preoccupation of one's own fears. A bleak panorama where not even death offers any release, for what you wrought will come back to haunt. As if the struggle never ends. As if there is not now, nor ever has been peace. Peace being foreign to my nature. The nature of the fucking beast. — Lydia Lunch

I declare that for me it is in vocalisation, in the use of mantras and prayer, through the awakening of the sexual secretions, resides the only way to reach the goal and everything else that is not here, is unfortunately lost time. — Arnold Krumm-Heller

Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion. — Willa Cather

No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it. — Brooke Ellison

Who you are and what you read is private in a library. — Lemony Snicket

... he is a self-made man who has come to worship his creator. — Ross Benson

I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America? What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity? — Marco Rubio

Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. — Pink