Forestallers Quotes & Sayings

High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the bumps, sand off the sharp corners. — Anne Fadiman

I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run. — Nicky Oppenheimer

Thou content to leave thy prayer in his hands, who knows when to give, and how to give, and what to give, and what to withhold. So pleading, earnestly, importunately, yet with humility and resignation, thou shalt surely prevail. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on. — Rachel Bloom

If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness. — Arthur Golden

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total. — William James

Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side. — Rich Hall

My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean - one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth. — Clive Sinclair

I believe that in New York, we must have one set of rules for everyone - and that means women cannot be unfairly denied health coverage. — Eric Schneiderman

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth. — Epicurus

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female. — Ray Floyd

We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters. — Mark Nepo

The life of a repo man is always intense. — Alex Cox