Diamondstone Guest Quotes & Sayings

She sighed. Men were a pain. — Larry McMurtry

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. — John Ruskin

I knew he'd get left behind when the Rapture came due to his swearing and probably also for having long hair and tight pants. — Susan Juby

It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower. — Paul Graham

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making. — Theodore Roosevelt

As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on. — Lynne Truss

If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean - even if it did build muscle - whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period ... the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities. — Christopher Hitchens

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act. — Martha Graham

Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all. — Tertullian

Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas. — H.L. Mencken

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. — Earle Brown

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it. — Huston Smith

She laughed at herself when she saw that she had expected to be at once a heretic and a returned hero; she was very reasonable and merry about it; and it hurt just as much as ever. — Sinclair Lewis