Haultail Quotes & Sayings

We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising. — Eric Hoffer

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers. — David Bowie

But she remained lost to him the way dew
was lost to the newly formed earth in the haze
of the very first sunset. — J. Neil C. Garcia

With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through the sieve of a sharp yew, a wailing black meteor hurtling through green clouds, a human prickles. — Flann O'Brien

I figure that unless you are in the business of politics, covering it or columnizing about it, politics should take up maybe a tenth corner of a good citizen's mind. The rest should be philosophy, friendship, romance, family, culture and fun. I wish our talk-show culture reflected that balance, and that the emotional register around politics were more in keeping with its low but steady nature. — David Brooks

We must scrunch or be scrunched. — Charles Dickens

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. — Norman Ralph Augustine

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so — Freeman Dyson

Every day. I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me. — Oscar Wilde