Compass Engraved Quotes & Sayings

The message of the bell, the singer's tragic tone announcing it, underlined life's inflexible call to order, reaffirming the illusory nature of love and pleasure. — Anthony Powell

I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school. — Willow Shields

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me. — Glenn Beck

Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don't bump into people without saying you're sorry. When you shake hands, it's supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out. — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares? — Montgomery Clift

I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail! — Stevie Ray Vaughan

If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it's their choice. — Jane Seymour

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. — Hamid Karzai

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the Blessed Sacrament. Every one who has had anything to do with ministering to souls has seen the power which Jesus has. Talent is not needed. Eloquence is comparatively unattractive. Learning is often beside the mark. Controversy simply repels ... All the attraction of the Church is in Jesus, and His chief attraction is the Blessed Sacrament — Frederick William Faber

'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity. — Gene Luen Yang

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker