Desolation Road Quotes & Sayings

Training was all I could think about. One Sunday when I found the stadium locked, I broke in and worked out in the freezing cold. Every painful set, every extra rep, was a step toward my goal of winning. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Love daily.
Love deeply.
Love daringly.
Love deliberately. — Matshona Dhliwayo

He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged. — Martin Amis

No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant. — Anatoli Granovsky

The bad reviews get to me, believe me. — Daniel Craig

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. — George A. Smith

Greatness in art is always a by-product. — Harold Rosenberg

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. — Cormac McCarthy

And under it all, earth waited with her lead-filled veins, impatient to shrug herself clean. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Donald Trump comes closer than anyone else to being the archetype of the species; crossing genres, he exemplifies all the ways an asshole can capture our attention. (164-65) — Geoffrey Nunberg

Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their role is to protect our liberty. By using the absolute power of freedom to accomplish reforms of democracy, we have undermined democracy and diminished our freedom. — Philip K. Howard

So now you're on the run,' Warrick said wistfully. 'Travelling the Dark Highway, a lone wolf. With your friend, who is another wolf. Two lone wolves. Two wolves, really. Not really alone. Two wolves in a car. Travelling. One of them naked and bloody. The other with her ass hanging out. — Derek Landy

Between always and never — Paul Celan

I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws — Alex Gaskarth

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed. — Herman Melville

When Isaac Newton embarked on his great program, he encountered a fundamental lack of definition where it was most needed. He began with a semantic sleight of hand: "I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all," he wrote deceptively. Defining these words was his very purpose. There were no agreed standards for weights and measures. Weight and measure were themselves vague terms. Latin seemed more reliable than English, precisely because it was less worn by everyday use, but the Romans had not possessed the necessary words either. — James Gleick

Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy. — Rita Dove