Cumulatively Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT! — Megan Whalen Turner

The fire breather is beneath the clover, and beneath his breathing there is cold clay forever — Joanna Newsom

We would give anything for what we have. — Tony Hoagland

What you resist, persists — Neale Donald Walsch

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. — John Burroughs

People were patient with each other in the Grand Mosque, and communal - everyone washing his or her feet in the same fountain, with no shoving or prejudice. We were all Muslims in God's house, and it was beautiful. It had a quality of timelessness. I think this is one reason Muslims believe that Islam means peace: because in a large, cool place full of kindness you do feel peaceful. But as soon as we left the mosque, Saudi Arabia meant intense heat and filth and cruelty. People had their heads cut off in public squares. Adults spoke of it. It was a normal, routine thing: after the Friday noon prayer you could go home for lunch, or you could go and watch the executions. Hands were cut off. Men were flogged. Women were stoned. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Like our bodies and our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away. — W.G. Sebald