Graddol English As A Global Language Quotes & Sayings

The idea of it was I was thinking about how when you're a kid you get this unconditional love and you spend the rest of your life trying to find that, but you can't because everyone's in it for their own thing. It's kind of cynical. — Sam Endicott

Christ said that illumination is found only by putting everything one has in jeopardy. Thou, of all humans, should understand the courage that is required to reject the secure blessings of society in order to woo the unpredictable ecstasies of the solitary soul. It is true that Christ had little enthusiasm for dance or copulation, that he took 'right' and 'wrong' too seriously and set himself apart from the natural world, — Tom Robbins

The great assay of art, but at his touch - Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand - — William Shakespeare

If a chair or a building is not functional ... it is ridiculous. — Donald Judd

However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, 'I never fell into error'? And if he more than once offended, who is there shall have hardihood to say, 'I never committed offence'? — Howard Pyle

We're all on loan. The only thing that makes sense is to be together. — Juliette Fay

What will survive of us is love.

- from A Writer — Philip Larkin

She argued. She cried. She took my faltering, my tortured refusals for something far finer than they really were. At the end of the afternoon, before we left the wood, and with a solemnity and sincerity, a complete dedication of herself that I cannot describe to you because such unconditional promising is another extinct mystery ... she said, Whatever happens I shall never marry anyone but you. — John Fowles

Darlin', if it were a choice between you and a hundred of Gray's finest, I'd pick you every time. — Alexandra Bracken

The angst of adolescence is the fear the pretty Italian girls across the street will never come over. The crisis of mid-life is learning they never will. — Mark Darrah