Coralled Quotes & Sayings

Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years. — Kwasi Kwarteng

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren't really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That's how I felt. — Tim Tharp

When life brings you to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray. — Taya Kyle

In managing our transport systems, our governments must constantly negotiate the paradox of mass movement. They must create a system which, for the sake of speed and efficiency, treats us like a herd, constantly prodded and coralled, divided, re-formed and forced into line. At the same time it must grant us the illusion of autonomy. — George Monbiot

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it. — Celeste Ng

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David. — Luke Ford

All that shameless groveling. no wonder 'merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he'd witnessed since leaving Mira III. Would his father do that? of course he would. That's what parents were for. — Marcha A. Fox

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. — Edith Sodergran

I knew little of the world, as the Justice had seen, but I knew that we can lose ourselves in the parts we play and if this continues too long we will not find our way back again. — Barry Unsworth