Fang20 Quotes & Sayings

July 6. I wish to meet the facts of life - the vital facts, which are the phenomena or actuality the gods meant to show us - face to face, and so I came down here. Life! who knows what it is, what it does? If I am not quite right here, I am less wrong than before; and now let us see what they will have. — Henry David Thoreau

The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities. — Pope Francis

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ. — John Dyer

Whoever was there is gone now," Booker said on his way back down the stairs. "Are you all right, sugar?"
I took the towel he handed me. My eyes narrowed. "I will be once the heart attack you gave me subsides."
"I have that effect on all the girls."

- Booker & Aubree, A Perfect Mess — Zoe Dawson

The only people who believe in straight roads are generals & mail coach drivers. — Richard Flanagan

There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that elegance signaled happiness. — Anna Quindlen

Food in the trash is like the tossed-and-found. — Wendelin Van Draanen

I'm going out with Colin Osgood today, and he's meeting me here. If you start making kissy noises, I will strip you of all your coffee privileges.
Rachel pretended to think seriously about it, then asked, "Can I make a joke?"
"No."
"A limerick?"
"No." "
Can I hum the "Wedding March" as you leave?"
"No. — Sarah Addison Allen

What... what are you doing here?"
He's shaking his head as he walks my way; a steaming coffee mug is in his hand.
"What am I doing here? I live here."
"Y-you do? How did I get here?"
He starts to laugh. "You don't remember?"
"No... I really don't."
He places the mug in front of me. "You called me on your cell. I found you spaced out of your mind in an alley behind the bar. You were talking to a cat. You claimed it was your mother. — Greg Logsted

He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all. — Karl Barth

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. — Peter Benchley