Last Hurrah For Summer Quotes & Sayings

Since the Bible is God's Word, we shouldn't be surprised if Satan tries to convince us otherwise. — Billy Graham

Qualities of Good Citizens ... is to admire what others have created in love and faith — Khalil Gibran

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. — William Blake

He knew that he was very near achieving the General Temporal Theory that the Ioti wanted so badly for their spaceflight and their prestige. He knew also that he had not achieved it and might never do so. He had never admitted either fact clearly to anyone. Before he left Anarres, he had thought the thing was in his grasp.
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He wasn't quite sure he was ready to publish. There was something not quite right, something that needed a little refining. As he had been working ten years on the theory, it wouldn't hurt to take a little longer, to get it polished perfectly smooth. The little something not quite right kept looking wronger. A little flaw in the reasoning. A big flaw. A crack right through the foundations...The night before he left Anarres he had burned every paper he had on the General Theory. He had come to Urras with nothing. For half a year he had, in their terms, been bluffing them.

Or had he been bluffing himself? — Ursula K. Le Guin

I am wrapped round with phrases, like damp straw; I glow, phosphorescent. — Virginia Woolf

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side. — Molly Ivins

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started. — Ryan Tedder

Either way, it fucking sucked. Either way, I was fucked. Either way, it fucking sucked that I was fucked. — Jeff Menapace

It's a gift. (Artemis)
Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power and applause and salutes, all the money and palaces and willin' women they want. — Sinclair Lewis

Any decent jock could ride her. But familiarity with a horse gave you an edge. — Jane Schwartz

War. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars with shifting casts of supposed heroes and villains, each new hero making one increasingly nostalgic for the old villain. The names changed, as did the faces, and I spit on them equally for all the petty feuds, the snipers, the land mines, bombing raids, the rockets, the looting and raping and killing. — Khaled Hosseini

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Let's be best friends," Nora said. "We can braid each other's hair and murder runaways together. — Tiffany Reisz