Exclaims Def Quotes & Sayings

It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists. — Jeanette Winterson

Every parent is an artist, for the bared canvas of a newborn's soul begs for the artist's touch. And because this is so, a parent must prepare the palette with the utmost care, choose the brushes with poised caution, and mindfully attend to every brushstroke regardless of how slight. And such caution is utterly imperative for the emerging rendering will be both a legacy borne of the parent, and a life lived by the child. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream. — John Ashbery

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all. — Robert Bunsen

If the Christian dogmas of a revengeful God, universal sinfulness, election by divine grace and the danger of eternal damnation were true, it would be a sign of weak-mindedness and lack of character not to become a priest, apostle or hermit and, in fear and trembling, to work solely on one's own salvation; it would be senseless to lose sight of ones eternal advantage for the sake of temporal comfort. If we may assume that these things are at any rate believed true, then the everyday Christian cuts a miserable figure; he is a man who really cannot count to three, and who precisely on account of his spiritual imbecility does not deserve to be punished so harshly as Christianity promises to punish him.
from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are . — Tom Hodgkinson

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could — Zig Ziglar

There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base. — Eddie Plank

God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself. — Duke Of Wellington

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. — Henry David Thoreau

He wanted to taste nothing unless it was the sweetness of her mouth, the musk of her arousal, the salt of her tears, wanted to touch nothing unless it was the silk of her hair, her soft curves, wanted to breathe nothing unless it had come from her lungs. — Pamela Clare