Cassians Collations Quotes & Sayings

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music. — Prince Royce

Who was it under the chair?" said Windle. "That was Schleppel," said Lupine. "We think he's a bogeyman." "Are bogeymen undead?" "He won't say." "You've never seen him? I thought bogeymen hid under things and, er, behind things and sort of leapt out at people." "He's all right on the hiding. I don't think he likes the leaping out," said Lupine. Windle thought about this. An agoraphobic bogeyman seemed to complete the full set. — Terry Pratchett

Without the Fatherhood of God driving our manhood, we become "mad scientists" as we destructively experiment with those in our charge. But because of Jesus there is hope...Through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, God becomes our Father. — Eric Mason

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. — Jim Dine

Regional dialects have to become national tongues before they can attain lasting glory. As with America, as with Australia. Scottish is different because Scotland considers itself to be a nation. Its language deserves a chapter to itself. — Anthony Burgess

millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? — Henry David Thoreau

WORK, SOMETIMES
I was sad all day, and why not. There I was, books piled
on both sides of the table, paper stacked up, words
falling off my tongue.
The robins had been a long time singing, and now it
was beginning to rain.
What are we sure of? Happiness isn't a town on a map,
or an early arrival, or a job well done, but good work
ongoing. Which is not likely to be the trifling around
with a poem.
Then it began raining hard, and the flowers in the yard
were full of lively fragrance.
You have had days like this, no doubt. And wasn't it
wonderful, finally, to leave the room? Ah, what a
moment!
As for myself, I swung the door open. And there was
the wordless, singing world. And I ran for my life. — Mary Oliver

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns. — Laurance Rockefeller

An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine. — Jennifer Worth

The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect. — William Boyd

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul. — Lincoln Steffens

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions. — Amory Lovins