Limachin Quotes & Sayings

Another reason why we are often most happy in our troubles, is this - then we have the closest dealings with God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. — Thomas Malthus

dies novus est," he said, quoting one of Flora's favorite Latin expressions. "Tomorrow is a new day. — Gillian Anderson

The call to faith, in this light, is not some test of a coy god, waiting to see if we "get it right." It is the only summons, issued under the only conditions, which can allow us fully to reveal who we are, what we most love, and what we most devoutly desire. Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts ... The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not. — Terryl L. Givens

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. — David Foster Wallace

Faithfully he followed the pattern of the scientist determined to interpret the facts to suit the theory. — Mark Clifton

It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop. — Robert South

Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth;
Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth;
Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth. — Frances Sargent Osgood

She leaned toward him and said in a quiet voice, "Are you Christian?"
Mitchell hesitated to answer. The worst thing about religion was religious people. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements. — Nicholas Sparks

If is a very big preposition. — John Major

My dream is every day. When I wake up, I want to find something new. Something beautiful about each day I'm given. I want to take the cards I'm given and play them with a smile, not to win, just to play. — Marilyn Grey

We have nothing to speak about. There never was. Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is time wasting away. Any communication is just a yelp in the darkness. I am speaking now but I am saying nothing. I am just making noises, and, as it happens, they are organized in words and you should not draw meaning from this. — Cecil Baldwin

We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create. — Charles Bukowski

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things. — Ariel Pink