Excerpta Et Collectanea Quotes & Sayings

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down. — Christopher Cross

English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve. — Fred Allen

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live. — Paul Brunton

I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on. — Henry Rollins

It'd be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things.
Rhiow — Diane Duane

among a people hurried and busy and preoccupied, some in the pursuit of riches, some in the pursuit of pleasure, and some, the majority, in the struggle for existence, there arise in every generation, here and there, one or two great souls - men who — Oliver Lodge

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. — Shirley Maclaine

I wanted to go to him to save me, but he was the one who broke me this time. — Nikki Rowe

I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful. — John Edwards

I want that at my funeral," said Pam. "I want to be carried out on the shoulders of six stalwart young men. Preferably in loincloths. — Leslie Meier

I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a certain day amongst those days which never dawned, and will not set, an angel entered Hades - stood, shone, smiled, delivered a prophecy of conditional pardon, kindled a doubtful hope of bliss to come, not now, but at a day and hour unlooked for, revealed in his own glory and grandeur the height and compass of his promise: spoke thus - then towering, became a star, and vanished into his own Heaven. His legacy was suspense - a worse boon than despair. — Charlotte Bronte