Lidingo Quotes & Sayings

And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it. — Charles Dickens

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. — Henry David Thoreau

The good point is when you combine excitement and calm together. — Lyoto Machida

people's attempts to mangle religious doctrines to fit their own purposes. — Joyce Brandon

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. — Grant-Lee Phillips

In a real relationship the two of you are together, meeting without your histories. — John De Ruiter

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud. — Jean Baudrillard

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth. — Miguel De Cervantes

This brings me back to the statement that thee is no such thing as living matter. In the cell, all the parts and pieces are separate units, working precisely together, but not themselves alive. Life is not IN any of these parts and pieces, just as in your automobile, there is no automobility in any piece or part, in a spark plug or a carburetor needle. Automobility is a superior quality which coheres to the total motor car to the total motor car. Similarly, life is a super-quality that coheres to the total cell. — Wallace Johnson

Miss Kwan said, putting her voice into its "kindly" mode, which was only slightly less scary than full-on shouting. — Patrick Ness

He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day. — Penelope Lively

But Mr. Cramer,." Wolfe protested, "is it my fault if destiny likes this address? — Rex Stout

We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit, will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down. — Susan Sontag

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It's hard sometimes. — Terry Tempest Williams

The Beats inaugurated the long march through the moral territory of American culture. Who knows how many lives were blighted along the way as a result of their proselytizing on behalf of drugs and promiscuous sex? — Roger Kimball