Epiphanous Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

The important fact is that for the man the act is eternal, and that for the brief space he has to live, he is already dead. He is already in a different world from ours. He has crossed the frontier. The important fact is that something is done which can not be undone-a possibility which none of us realize until we face it ourselves. — T. S. Eliot

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit. — Kevin Nealon

Crinoline was so wide that she parted the crowd wherever she walked, leaving an aisle of space behind her. — Eleanor Catton

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace. — George W. Bush

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy. — Donald Miller

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness. — Henri Nouwen

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition. — Harold Holzer

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. — Yehuda Amichai

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. — Hermann Hesse

I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact. — William Faulkner

He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of "Zen" navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both. — Douglas Adams

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free. — Haruki Murakami

Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction. — Richard L. Evans

No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first. — Chris Hadfield