Chastened Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same ... — Elizabeth Bowen

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else. — Criss Jami

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan! — T. Boone Pickens

...the thunder has sounded--but who knows where the rain's going to fall. — Hong Ying

What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new. — William Sargant

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone. — Julien Gracq

They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo - their kind. To limbo. — Philip Wylie

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. — Thomas Merton

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film. — Ira Sachs

Wisdom is the fruit that ripens when, with crazy courage, we plant ourselves in the garden of radical unknowingness. It is the deep breath that accompanies the willingness to not know, to rest in the mystery, to abide in surprise and allow the sacred to reveal itself in its terrible beauty and startling ordinariness. To be wise is to come undone and pay attention to the dismantling and celebrate what rises from the annihilating depths of love's fire. — Pir Zia Inayat Khan

Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes. — Irving Stone

He'd already put a shirt on each leg and had stacked every shoe I owned into a precarious pyramid. The room looked like a small, overly curious tornado had torn it apart.
"You have got to be kidding me," I said. "Maybe I should give you to Shamus. — Devon Monk

It is Plato's portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2.500 years. — Jostein Gaarder

Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. — Mother Teresa

Michaelangelo must teach them - do not forget: all things are naked and open before His eyes. — Pope John Paul II