Descendentii Quotes & Sayings

Ten times a day I am compelled to reflect on my past life ... and I can never justify to myself the spending of four years on dramatic criticism. I have sworn an oath to endure no more of it. Never again will I cross the threshold of a theatre. The subject is exhausted; and so am I.
I am off duty forever, and am going to sleep. — George Bernard Shaw

When all things repose, do you alone Awake to hear the sweet harps play To Love before him on his way, And the night wind answering in antiphon Till night is overgone? — James Joyce

The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West. — Sidney Lanier

Democracy isn't the work of the market's invisible hand; it is the work of real hands. — Naomi Klein

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs. — Jenny Offill

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute. — Edmund Phelps

The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required. — Damian Marley

Sometimes I drink coffee at 03:57am, only I call it beer, and it's really purple wine, disguised as clear distilled water, taken from my invisible car's radiator. She used to like radiator water too, so this also serves as a self-reminder to never share a glass with someone who has had hepatitis. Glasses are the main source of broken relationships. I mean glass hearts, as they only bend and change their shape under extremely high temperatures, which, unfortunately, are technically impossible to achieve in some places, like Soviet Russia, where nothing ever happens, because it doesn't really exist anymore. — Will Advise

We get several requests for contributions each year from organizations in Twin Falls. We don't have enough money in the general fund to help everyone, so we use fundraisers like this to generate money. — Rick Cook

Waiting.
That's always what being a spy comes down to, isn't it? — Embee

Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe. — Irvine Welsh

The phrase "a little genetic test" strikes me as an oxymoron. — Veronica Roth

I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid. — John Green

I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself. — Theodore Roosevelt

Even the most innocent of men's affairs seem doomed to cause suffering. Pushing the lawnmower through tall wet grass, and enjoying the strong aroma of the morning, I found that the blades had cut a frog in half. I have not forgotten his eyes. — Christopher Morley