Declinio Da Quotes & Sayings

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out. — Charles Sheffield

You cannot save others until you first save yourself, — Cassandra Clare

Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem ... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution. — John Spence

I didn't vote for Bush, and I'm not happy particularly that he's president. But I will say I'm impressed that he didn't start bombing Afghanistan the day after Sept. 11. The more time that passes without him bombing Afghanistan, the more I respect him. — William T. Vollmann

What humanity was about to lose, though, except for one tiny colony on Santa Rosalia, was what the trackless sea could never lose, so long as it was made of water, the ability to heal itself. — Kurt Vonnegut

She chuckled to herself, pressed send, and wandered around the airport for half an hour, sporadically checking Twitter. "I got nothing," she told me. "No replies." I imagined her feeling a bit deflated about this - that sad feeling when nobody congratulates you for being funny, that black silence when the Internet doesn't talk back. — Jon Ronson

Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life — Frederick Douglass

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked. — Douglas Wilson

I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player. — Jarvis Cocker

My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy - but it's never him, and each time it isn't, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach. — Lauren Oliver

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling. — Lawren Harris

the only thing men are fast at is sex. — Cherise Sinclair