Engulfing Bullish Quotes & Sayings

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality. — Pierre Bayard

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available? — William Safire

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him. — Alexander Pushkin

He tells old wives' tales much to the point. — Horace

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. — Alfred Jarry

Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill. — Kerry Greenwood

I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator. — Evel Knievel

(When McLuhan announced that the medium was the message, he was being arch. The medium is both opposite to, and entwined with, the message.) — James Gleick

The best decisions are always made quickly and changed slowly, not made slowly and changed quickly. — John Patrick Hickey

We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who - while experiencing same-sex desires and feelings - nevertheless battle with the rest of us, in repentance and faith, for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms for sexual expression. There is room for every kind of background and past sinful experience among members of Christ's flock as we learn the way of repentance and renewed lives, for "such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God" (1 Corinthians 6:11).
This is true inclusivity. — Richard Bewes

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it. — Eudora Welty

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created. — Bryant McGill

Can you remember? When we thought
the poets taught how to live? — Adrienne Rich

Jorgen was too good and kind, and he had seen too many tragic things in his life, for her to hurt him and break his heart. He should not love her. She should shun him, reject him now, before his heart was engaged. But glancing up at him, she knew that her heart was in just as much danger. Oh, dear saints in heaven. It seemed just as likely that she was in love with him. — Melanie Dickerson