Ead Duryan Quotes & Sayings

She's had a long life. Now she's going to the Lord."
"Frankly it creeps me out a little when you say things like that," Simon said.
"It shouldn't. If you don't like 'Lord,' pick another word. She's going home. She's going back to the party. Whatever you like."
"I suppose you have some definite ideas about an afterlife."
"Sure. We get reabsorbed into the earthly and celestial mechanism."
"No heaven?"
"That's heaven."
"What about realms of glory? What about walking around in golden slippers?"
"We abandon consciousness as if we were waking from a bad dream. We throw it off like clothes that never fit us right. It's an ecstatic release we're physically unable to apprehend while we're in our bodies. Orgasm is our best hint, but it's crude and minor by comparison. — Michael Cunningham

I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. [ ... ] The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist. — Jimmy Wales

The constant life and death struggles of the Everglades violent and implacable, but not mean, never mean. — Patrick Astre

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Reading in another language implies a perpetual state of growth, of possibility. I — Jhumpa Lahiri

Our dreams drive us so. One after another. Jasmine sprung bravely from the fertile soil of our suffering. And who can live without dreams? Who loves their brief, sweet passage? Dum vivimus, vivimus. While we live, let us live. — David B. Lentz

The actual tragedy of Emmett Till, he had told her once, was not the murder of a black child for whistling at a white woman but that some black people thought: But why did you whistle? — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To marry is to surrender everything
not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life. — Donna Woolfolk Cross

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences. — George Carlin

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? — Laini Taylor

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. — Tacitus

Two hearts that beat as one. — George R R Martin

We should hope not for a colorblind society but instead for a world in which we can see each other fully, learn from each other, and do what we can to respond to each other with love. — Michelle Alexander

The goat, for us, is an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from Iowa people are like 'Beware the horned goat of satan!' and all that. It's bullshit. It's just an animal. — Corey Taylor