Finkbeiner Quotes & Sayings

He had come to us only three years earlier, but had already won general sympathy, mainly because he "knew how to bring society together." His house was never without guests, and it seemed he would have been unable to live without them. He had to have guests to dinner every day, even if only two, even if only one, but without guests he would not sit down to eat. He gave formal dinners, too, under all sorts of pretexts, sometimes even the most unexpected. The food he served, though not refined, was abundant, the cabbage pies were excellent, and the wines made up in quantity for what they lacked in quality. In the front room stood a billiard table, surrounded by quite decent furnishings; that is, there were even paintings of English racehorses in black frames on the walls, which, as everyone knows, constitute a necessary adornment of any billiard room in a bachelor's house. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How did you know," Summer would demand, and then decide: "It's probably a coincidence."
"It's not a coincidence," Bird would say. "It's just obvious. Your body just knows."
"But how do you know?"
"How do you know a story is a good story or not?" asked Bird. "Like that. you know like that. — Katherine Catmull

Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right? — Pamela Anderson

The way I figured it, Jesus had the poor close to His heart because they were the ones who had nothing else to hold onto. — Susie Finkbeiner

You know," she says. "You're still alive. I don't know how many different ways I can try to tell you before it finally sinks in. — Courtney Summers

I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective. — Alex Clare

The world was full of awful people who did terrible and ugly things. Most of them were only awful because of the scars on their hearts. — Susie Finkbeiner

Mummy was a swine: a scum-cunted, likkered-up, brain-sick swine. She was lazy and slothful and dirty and belligerent and altogether evil. Ma was a soak - a drunk - a piss-eyed hell-bag with a taste for the homebrew. — Nick Cave

That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard. — Susie Finkbeiner

It's beautiful," I whispered. "Green as grass." I remembered grass. It could get as green as that dress. — Susie Finkbeiner

To affirm that God is God is to want to live in a particular way. — Miroslav Volf

Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity. — Sun Tzu

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health. — Baruch Spinoza

Dust and dark married, creating a pillow to smother hard on our faces. — Susie Finkbeiner

But once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. — Ransom Riggs