Lileks Gallery Quotes & Sayings

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral. — Robert M. Pirsig

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February. — Edward Abbey

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it. — Alexander Whyte

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing
by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself. — Dallas Willard

The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of the Long Parliament, may have been an unpractical body, so far as the task of administration in troublous times was concerned. But it seems quite possible that the wealth of contumely and scorn which has been poured upon it was, originally, due quite as much to the fierce anger of vested interests against outspoken criticism, as to any real vagueness or want of practical wisdom in the plans of the House itself. — Edward Jenks

We had quitters during the Revolution too ... we called them 'Kentuckians.' — George Washington