Elapsing Quotes & Sayings

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? — Jessamyn West

Other demigods could understand Latin and Greek. Leo could speak Creak and Squeak. — Rick Riordan

We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ... — Brad Paisley

The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them. — Christopher Bollen

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk. — Margaret Atwood

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. — Bruce Lee

It (the talking, the telling) seemed (to him, to Quentin) to partake of that logic- and reason-flouting quality of a dream which the sleeper knows must have occurred, stillborn and complete, in a second, yet the very quality upon which it must depend to move the dreamer (verisimilitude) to credulity _horror or pleasure or amazement_ depends as completely upon a formal recognition of and acceptance of elapsed and yet-elapsing time as music or a printed tale. — William Faulkner

The most important thing you think is what you think about God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth. — Tim Jackson

My idea for a Buddhist video game: No guns. Self-immolate instead. Get reincarnated. Repeat until you find Nirvana. Takes forever to play. — Dan Spencer

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies. — Pablo Neruda