Budapestspeakeasy Quotes & Sayings

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners. — Randall Jarrell

You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine. — Marc Ecko

Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes. — J.L. Austin

Mind hates to seep in delusion soaking faintly discolored obsession. — Munia Khan

It struck me that we-that moth and I-were two opposite extremes. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every
way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all. While thinking this thought, I reached out a finger to feel the moth's velvety surface; but when I brushed it with my fingertip, it turned all at once into a pile of ash without even a sound, without even a moment in which I could see it crumbling. I was so astonished I let out a cry. The swirling in my mind stopped; I felt as if I had stepped into the eye of a storm. I let the tiny shroud and its pile of ashes flutter to the ground; and now I understood the thing that had puzzled me all morning. The stale air had washed away. The past was gone. — Arthur Golden

We live in a series of moments and seasons and sense memories, strung end to end to form a sort of story. — Jeff Zentner

Anyone who thinks this world is without magic, hasn't been to a library. — Amy Fellner Dominy

Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house. — Mark Zupan

Andrew looked as he always had, and Neil knew his face as well as he knew every iteration of his own. Despite that, something seemed different. — Nora Sakavic

I was going to be in therapy for a long, long time. I wasn't even a sentence yet. But I had some syllables, some new sounds. The first halves of the sentences I was accumulating were solid. I trusted them. — Heather Sellers

Life is the flight of the alone to the alone. — Plotinus

Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience. — Steven Furtick

Life wants you to thrive in the domain of your own unique creative vision for your yourself. — Bryant McGill

If you have to do the work, do it well, with all your heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Few questions make long friends in the hills. — Marah Ellis Ryan