Columellar Quotes & Sayings

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty. — William Shakespeare

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman

What did the earth teach the trees?
How to speak to the sky. — Pablo Neruda

By serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in world affairs, and explains to some degree why states like Japan, Britain, France, and Germany - states that are even more dependent on Persian Gulf oil than we are - defer to Washington on major international issues (like Iraq) even when they disagree with us. — Michael Klare

There are lovers content with longing.
I'm not one of them. — Rumi

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. — William Golding

There are sights too beautiful to swallow. They stay on the rim of the eye; it cannot contain them. — Olivia Laing

I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4. — John Niven

I'd Begin to imagine my life in a foreign country, some faraway land where, if things went wrong, i could always blame somebody else, saying I'd never wanted to live there in the first place. — David Sedaris

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. — Charles Caleb Colton

I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of it between the infrared and the ultraviolet - the narrow narrow corridor of light that we are able to perceive. — Russell Brand

Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the nature. — Amit Ray

I've had to find my sanity. — Evangeline Lilly