Dzanc Publishing Quotes & Sayings

In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry. — Bertrand Russell

We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ's death and resurrection. — Pope Francis

Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
And batter'd with the shocks of doom,
To shape and use. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore — John Green

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

The thing that I think a lot of us forget is that part of the fault is the books ... you get this sort of cycle that as they become less important commercially they begin protecting their egos by talking more and more to each other and establishing themselves as this kind of tight cloistered world that doesn't really have anything to do with regular readers. — David Foster Wallace

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself. — Charles Krauthammer

I don't care how much evidence the state presented. I've never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Church today is mostly driven by man-made traditions and not by the biblical mandates to defend the Word of God and live by the Word of God. — Ken Ham

Uncle Burley said hills always looked blue when you were far away from them. That was a pretty color for hills; the little houses and barns and fields looked so neat and quiet tucked against them. It made you want to be close to them. But he said that when you got close they were like the hills you'd left, and when you looked back your own hills were blue and you wanted to go back again. He said he reckoned a man could wear himself out going back and forth. — Wendell Berry

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so. — Athanasius

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. — John Updike

What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination. — Terence McKenna

Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it. — Victor Papanek

I believe my most important job is being there when you need help. — Doug La Follette