Devil's Carnival Quotes & Sayings

I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth. — Jon Foreman

Martyrs, you see, are like bees. Their only power comes in death. How many of you would sacrifice yourself not to kill, but merely hurt your enemy? — Pierce Brown

Now when I was fifteen, oh I knew it was over
The road to enchantment was not mine to take
Cause lower calf, upper arm should be half what they are
I was breaking the laws that the signmakers made.

And all I could eat was the poisonous apple
And that's not a story I was meant to survive
I was all out of choices, but the woman of voices

She turned round the corner with music around her,
She gave me the language that keeps me alive — Dar Williams

This book is dedicated to my mother. — V.C. Andrews

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes. — Jane Porter

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon. — Sugata Mitra

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which. — Jeff Bezos

Its front sags against its neighbor to the right, clinging for support like one of its own drunken patrons. — Glen Cook

Tax should be the same for everybody. — Mario Cuomo

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins. The search is over when the finding starts. And the finding is not a finding at all, but a creating. You cannot find what you have been struggling for, but you can create it. And the jump-start of creation is gratitude. — Neale Donald Walsch

It is the intriguing job of genre scholars to figure out what lies behind what everyone already knows. — Amy J. Devitt

To measur whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down. — Radhanath Swami

That which in mean men we entitle patience
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. — William Shakespeare