Epigraphic Source Quotes & Sayings

This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and then to be asked what you make of it and have to answer 'Scientific humanism.' That won't do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinity mystery and the infinite delight, i.e., God. In fact I demand it. I refuse to settle for anything less. I don't see why anyone should settle for less than Jacob, who actually grabbed aholt of God and would not let go until God identified himself and blessed him.

From the article titled "Questions They Never Asked Me — Walker Percy

Solitude increased my perception. But here's the tricky thing: when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant. (I)solation felt more like communion...To put it romantically, I was completely free. — Michael Finkel

Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful! — Anne Bishop

Yoga is an exact science in the form of poetry when we measure the flow of neurotransmitters in the brain. — Amit Ray

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth. — Umberto Eco

satisfyingly dizzying — Bill Bryson

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. — David Allen

I wanted to be his dear, his darling. — Kiera Cass

I am the Neelkanth! — Amish Tripathi

Students are expected to demonstrate creativity and perform service in order to get into college, but no one thinks they should be dumb enough to take them seriously as vocational goals. — William Deresiewicz

To find the right path, we first need to remember why we are on the wrong path. The reason can be put in one word: sin. — Billy Graham

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men. — Carl Sagan