Exegistics Quotes & Sayings

The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write ... I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect. — William Butler Yeats

There is no such thing as redemption, my friend. There is right, there is wrong, and there are a million shades of color between the two. Once you've done wrong, it is always with you. You just have to try and be better. — C.S. Friedman

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives. — John Gabriel Stedman

I paint with a language I can call my own ... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself. — Scott Kahn

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I will not go back. No bad thing for me to die. I will make it happen so that it happens only once. — Shahrukh Husain

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. — Francois Jacob

Keep your fiends close and your enemies even closer. — Sun Tzu

Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit. — Thiruvalluvar

I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor. — Madonna Ciccone

They lost Olivia at Newport Beach. The panic made Alice hyperventilate. You were meant to be watching her, Nick kept saying. As if that were the point. That Alice had made a mistake. Not that Olivia was missing, but that it was Alice's fault. — Liane Moriarty

My major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions. — J. A. Jance

A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Malcolm: So me and mine gotta lay down and die ... So you can live in your better world?
Operative: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there ... any more than there is for you. I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it. But it must be done. — Joss Whedon

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own. — Barbara Kingsolver