Doubledays Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love. — Henry David Thoreau

Do not be shocked, but I suspect some priests' and ministers' moral failures are actually very helpful to their own "salvation" and necessary for their growing up. — Richard Rohr

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel they have not said enough. — Mark Twain

In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really. — Ricky Gervais

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. — Christopher Hitchens

He does see Himself as the Divine Artist. Of course, He is also a blunderer - so many of His creations are botched. A good many are disasters which He then proceeds to plow back into the food chain. That is His only means of keeping His multitudinous, mediocre, and often meaningless spawnings from choking the existence of the rest. Yet, I will admit, He is dogged. He is still looking to improve His previous creations. — Norman Mailer

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element. — Augustus Hare

I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum. — Gillian Zinser

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time ... " — William Bennett

If everyone realized this truth about their own inherent power to create and to attract whatever they desired, not everyone would want to be the president of a country, not everyone would want to live on that mansion on the hill, and not everyone would want the same things you would. — Stephen Richards