Forfeiting A Game Quotes & Sayings

To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup. — Laurie Colwin

And I tell you that you should open yourselves to hearing an authentic poet, of the kind whose bodily senses were shaped in a world that is not our own and that few people are able to perceive. A poet closer to death than to philosophy, closer to pain than to intelligence, closer to blood than to ink. — Federico Garcia Lorca

At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. — Leo Tolstoy

Why interesting and important? Because women are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are not secondary players in human destiny, and every society has always known that. Without women capable of giving birth, human populations will die out. That is why the mass rape and murder of women, girls, and children has long been a feature of genocidal wars, and of other campaigns meant to subdue and exploit a population. — Margaret Atwood

Sarah Palin had a big op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, and she said she's against death panels. And I thought, 'Really? She's the one who pulled the plug on the McCain campaign.' — David Letterman

Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray. — Rene Leriche

Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918. — Henry Hamilton Beamish

Man is to man either a god or a wolf. — Desiderius Erasmus

We live in a culture where the acknowledgment of wrong or the ownership of risk and failure is paramount to forfeiting the game. — Dan B. Allender

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them. — Mackenzie Rosman

The Art of Woo provides tools for a critically important — G.Richard Shell

If worship does not change us it has not been worship. — Richard J. Foster

A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette. — Daina Chaviano

I don't feel at home where I am,
or where I spend time; only where,
beyond counting, there's freedom and calm,
that is, waves, that is, space where, when there,
you consist of pure freedom, which, seen,
turns that Gorgon, the crowd, to stone,
to pebbles and sand . . . where life's mean-
ing lies buried, that never let one
come within cannon shot yet.
From cloud-covered wells untold
pour color and light, a fete
of cupids and Ledas in gold.
That is, silk and honey and sheen.
That is, boon and quiver and call.
That is, all that lives to be free,
needing no words at all. — Regina Derieva

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom? — Adam Ant