Craftsperson In Steampunk Quotes & Sayings

I don't call it "Life Insurance," I call it "Love Insurance." We buy it because we want to leave a legacy for those we love. — Farshad Asl

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

And now, restored to the status of daughter in her own home, Amina began to feel the emotions of other people's food seeping into her - because Reverend Mother doled out the curries and meatballs of intransigence, dishes imbued with the personality of their creator; Amina ate the fish salans of stubbornness and the birianis of determination. And, although Mary's pickles had a partially counteractive effect - since she had stirred into them the guilt of her heart, and the fear of discovery, so that, good as they tasted, they had the power of making those who ate them subject to nameless uncertainties and dreams of accusing fingers - the diet provided by Reverend Mother filled Amina with a kind of rage, and even produced slight signs of improvements in her defeated husband. — Salman Rushdie

Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair. — Karl Marx

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed. — Elaine Scarry

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. — E. Franklin Frazier

Let him give himself to serving; he who teaches, — Anonymous

Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment
I need to see how they dance.'
'Okay.' She danced, and as she danced, she tried to think of the most delicious salads she could imagine
with artichokes and sundried tomato and blue cheese dressing, and beets, lots of beets. — Nicholson Baker

Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin. — James Randi

Define the life you want.
Never allow yourself to be bullied.
No one knows your destiny. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish. — George W. Bush

I think there are plenty of good bands out there, but the great bands aren't affected by what's going on around them, trends and all that and competing with other bands and wanting to be the biggest, we find that happens a lot. Bands look at other bands and think: that's what I want, you know? I think that remaining. — Ryan Jarman

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic. — Evelyn Waugh