Esquires Coffee Quotes & Sayings

And I would shrug and play the question off, unable to confess that I could no longer distinguish between faith and mere folly, between faith and simple endurance; that while I believed in the sincerity I heard in their voices, I remained a reluctant skeptic, doubtful of my own motives, wary of expedient conversion, having too many quarrels with God to accept a salvation too easily won. — Barack Obama

I felt myself begin to slide down into that recognizable abyss, down and down, where I knew it would be cold and dark, but which had become more familiar to me than my face in the mirror. I knew I should instead be grateful for this time with my two best friends, for having laughed, but I let myself slide anyway. And hoped someone would pull me back up. — Tracy H. Tucker

Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:
"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"
This also became Conrad's epitaph. — Joseph Conrad

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy. — Arthur Conan Doyle

But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers. — Richard Rodriguez

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear. — Martin Parr

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality. — Bobby Fischer

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out. — W. Somerset Maugham