Fifing Quotes & Sayings

The fear of God is nothing compared to the fear of tragedy and loss. -The Lady — Brenna Yovanoff

BOOK THE FIRST Which treats of the Night of Sense. STANZA THE FIRST On a dark night, Kindled in love with yearnings - oh, happy chance! - I went forth without being observed, My house being now at rest. — San Juan De La Cruz

And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets in the aisles of grass With their clear fifing pierce the hush; And somewhere you many hear anear The passion of the hermit thrush. — Clinton Scollard

I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.' — Eddie Marsan

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live. — Elizabeth McCracken

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. — Denis Diderot

This perpetual fear, always accompanying mankind in the ignorance of causes, as it were in the dark, must needs have for object something. And therefore when there is nothing to be seen, there is nothing to accuse, either of their good, or evil fortune, but some power, or agent invisible: in which sense perhaps it was, that some of the old poets said, that the gods were at first created by human fear: which spoken of the gods, that is to say, of the many gods of the Gentiles, is very true. — Christopher Hitchens

[ ... ] the point being that we know what IT is and we know TIME and we know that everything is really FINE ... — Jack Kerouac

As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable. — Sean Carroll

Mama has such cleverly timed headaches I wonder if she has any at all. — A.E. Moseley

Perhaps the vengeance could wait, at least until he had a bigger blade to work with. You have to be realistic, after all. — Joe Abercrombie

Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of "Mormonism"; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers — Joseph Smith Jr.

He doesn't translate well into our generation. — Donald Sutherland

The wailing of broken hearts
is the doorway to God. — Rumi