Intaking Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. — John Chrysostom

I watched, hoping she wouldn't come out too broke. It's all you can do for people sometimes, no matter how much you love them. — Katie Crouch

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. — Yuanwu Keqin

If I die tomorrow, you aren't allowed to say my life was cut short at age 25. I did more in those years than most people will ever do. — Alisa Mullen

Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt — Ray Bradbury

To know a person's character you must at least have talked with him, and unless you are gifted with remarkable intuitive insight you are not likely to know much about him unless you have seen him living and acting over a considerable period of time. — Aldous Huxley

I have changed for the last time
this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you. — Sharon Shinn

What a beautiful country this must have been once, when you could hop in a coupe and buy a bag of burgers and drive, drive, drive, stopping to swim in a river or sleep in a grove of trees without worrying about intaking mutagens or having the militia arrest you and send you to the Everglades for eternity. — George Saunders

I agree not to expect anything — Louisa May Alcott

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all. — Charles Saatchi

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life. — Jack Nicholson

The reality that someone you love has died is its own tragedy. But it's separate, isn't it, from the way it happened? — Sherrida Woodley

Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system ... Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said. — Michael Lewis

'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news. — Natasha Trethewey

me in bed - with a honeymoon present. Some of them were small, some were funny jokes, and some were extravagant, but every present came straight — James Patterson

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. — Herbert Spencer