Heration Quotes & Sayings

My fruit grows on other people's trees. — Bob Buford

Good taste is not something you can be taught. It's not something you obtain in a store or go to college to learn. — Pat Conroy

Only time would tell if this blazing fire would eventually die on the altar of ephemeral summer love, or if, by any chance, it had the power to kindle for a while, then light up anew, this time to burn forever more. — Effrosyni Moschoudi

I am not convinced of the argument, 'I want to believe; it is only those awful Christians I hate. They get in the way of my belief.' If you hate Christians more than you love Christ, you do not love Christ. It comes to mind the question, 'If you do not love your brother or sister whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen? — Criss Jami

Daddy had said No, but that had happened quite a while ago. Surely by now No had turned into a Yes. In fact, he was all but certain of it. — Thea Harrison

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If ever there was a prime-time trigger for PTSD you couldn't do much better than this, but lucky for Norm, the crowd, America, the forty-million-plus TV viewing audience, Bravos can deal, oh yes! Pupils dilated, pulse and blood pressure through the roof, limbs trembling with stress-reflex cortisol rush, but it's cool, it's good, their shit's down tight, no Vietnam-vet crackups for Bravo squad! You can march these boys straight into sound-and-light show hell and Bravos can deal, but damn, isn't it rude to put them through it. — Ben Fountain

Sometimes there's a fire in your life and you ask God,
"Lord, let me go around the fire." And God says, "No."
Then you ask, "Lord, then let me go over the fire."
And God says, "No." Then you ask,
"Well Lord, please let me go under the fire."
And God says, "No. Go through the fire and I'll be with you. — Lydia Thornton

You think you are a lot funnier than you are, you know," he replied, not looking away from the cannon.

"I am extremely amusing! I don't think you are listening properly. — Lauren James