Detamore Foothill Quotes & Sayings

People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin — Christopher Morley

I'd never realized, not until the last year or two of my life, how shaming it is to be pitied. — Paula Hawkins

He used sweet wine in place of life because he didn't have any more life to use. — Richard Brautigan

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower. — Walt Whitman

A similar tradition on the creative power of letters forms the basis of the following midrash on Job 28:11.... This brings us to the text that played so important a part in the development of the golem concept: the Book of Yetsirah or the Book of Creation.... We do not know the exact date of this enigmatic text,.... We can only be sure that it was written by a Jewish Neo-Pythagorean some time between the third and sixth century. — Gershom Scholem

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers ... make sure you hands are clean! — Bob Marley

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. — Henry Van Dyke

Besides, love flourishes best in ignorance ... or in absence. — Ari Berk

The answer is that each of us has two minds: a waking mind and a sleeping mind. Our waking mind is what talks and reasons. But the sleeping mind is more powerful. It sees deeply to the heart of things, It is the part of us that dreams. It remembers everything. it gives us intuition. Your waking mind does not understand the nature of names. Your sleeping kind does. It already knows many things your waking mind does not. — Patrick Rothfuss

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others. — Rebecca West

My children grew up with one Western parent. My husband doesn't believe in raising his voice with the kids and we don't spank. They were really raised in a half-Asian family. — Amy Chua

I am the girl
you fool around with,
before you meet
the love of your life. — Sade Andria Zabala

No matter which part of our brains we use, there are two things we all have in common: Our need to travel successfully through the maze of life, And the fact that 90% of our brains are water. — Stilton Jarlsberg