Downable Quotes & Sayings

Not what I have, but what I have not, is the first point of contact, between my soul and God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It was said that the gods favored fools because they were entertaining to watch. — N.K. Jemisin

This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please. — F. Paul Wilson

Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we'll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. Sometimes this can be a painful experience. I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be. By cultivating nonjudgmental openness to ourselves and to whatever arises, to our surprise and delight we will find ourselves genuinely welcoming the never-pin-downable quality of life, experiencing it as a friend, a teacher, and a support, and no longer as an enemy. — Pema Chodron

Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing. — Emma Donoghue

Lately I've been thinking a lot about leaving versus being left, and how obvious it is that leaving is easier. It was for me. — Sarah Protzman

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky. — Graham Norton

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy. — Oliver North

Martin is always telling me to put all of this behind me, to get on with my life. But the thing is, before Jesse, I never really had a life. I had a routine. I did things. But aside from the accident" - he gestured with his prosthetic arm - "nothing ever happened to me. But she happened. And it was like a train wreck. It was big and painful and beautiful and every second mattered. You know what Beaudelaire said about love? It's 'an oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.' But it's still an oasis. Our time together - that's the story of my life. Everything before her was just the boring setup. Like the first hour of a miniseries, the part that's just padding to stretch it out for three nights. And the time since she's gone - that's just been some sort of weird, dragged-out anticlimax. I can feel myself sitting in the audience watching my life and wondering, 'Why isn't this movie over? — Phoef Sutton

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. — Charles Ives

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. — Alfred Adler