Irascible Def Quotes & Sayings

The delicate thing that had grown between them had never had a right to exist. — C.S. Pacat

Christina and I don't speak, but I know our thoughts are the same, fixed on Uriah, on his last breaths. — Veronica Roth

As they sailed farther from the coast, the sky darkened and more stars came out. Percy studied the constellations - the ones Annabeth had taught him so many years ago. — Rick Riordan

For when we fail to see that our life is change, we set ourselves against ourselves and become like Ouroboros, the misguided snake, who tries to eat his own tail. Ouroboros is the perennial symbol of all vicious circles, of every attempt to split our being asunder and make one part conquer the other. — Alan W. Watts

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. — Vernon Jordan

Give Dayrolles a chair. — Lord Chesterfield

Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan. — Queen Latifah

I am the worst judge of my books. — John Banville

Do not be afraid to enter the cloud that is settling down on your life. God is in it. The other side is radiant with His glory. — L.B. Cowman

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level. — Helene D. Gayle

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness. — Sarah Orne Jewett

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars! — James Elroy Flecker

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. — John Milton

There is, after all, nothing inherently reasonable in the conviction that all of reality is simply an accidental confluence of physical causes, without any transcendent source or end. Materialism is not a fact of experience or a deduction of logic; it is a metaphysical prejudice, nothing more, and one that is arguably more irrational than almost any other. — David Bentley Hart

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task. — Chuck Schumer