Furibouts Quotes & Sayings

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken. — James Q. Wilson

It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. — William S. Burroughs

Without imagination, we merely see or hear, and even if we see or hear that the objects of the senses are beautiful, we cannot feel that they are so. The difference is this: in feeling the beauty of objects, we enjoy not only the common, shared pleasures of the senses, but also the private pleasures of the imagination, peculiar to ourselves, and such that we have to struggle to articulate them. — Mary Warnock

As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that. — Robert David Steele

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart. — Watchman Nee

What I saw there explained everything
the reason he had stayed away, why he had come to say good-bye. I can only describe what I saw by its effect on me. Every woman should be looked at in such a way, at least once her life. With a longing that cannot be contained
with love that goes beyond mere feeling because it transforms and-like the verse of the poem he had read
it dissolves, as an offering, a gift. I felt my face flush and waves of knowing suffused every pore, every cell of my being. I was loved. And in that love, I felt beauty
my own, unrealized until that moment, suddenly rising to consciousness in a way that made everything in me come alive to the beauty all around me. Nothing more needed to be said. — Nafisa Haji

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby. — Edna Ferber

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. — Clarence Darrow

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God. — Frederick William Faber

Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier. — Charlie Jane Anders

And I shall be misunderstord if understood to give an unconditional sinequam to the heroicised furibouts of the Nolanus theory, — James Joyce

I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour. — Andy Roddick

We grow small trying to be great. — E. Stanley Jones

The sound of dogs howling from the next homestead over. But the space between our houses grows while I sleep. The forest around me deepens. The trees fall in love and multiply. The snow an intoxicant. I pray the pines don't get bolder, that they don't grow organs and hands. — Stuart Dybek

It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them. — Edward Elgar