Mamorukun Quotes & Sayings

You going to try the rest of your gear on?" he asked on an exhale. "Or you want to whine about your pants a little more?"
"Don't make me flip you off."
"Why would I deprive you of a favorite hobby?" [Vishous to Butch] — J.R. Ward

What you focus upon will always tend to rule what is experienced. — Steven Redhead

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it. — Florence Nightingale

What makes a poem a poem, finally, is that it is unparaphrasable. There is no other way to say exactly this; it exists only in its own body of language, only in these words. I may try to explain it or represent it in other terms, but then some element of its life will always be missing.
It's the same with painting. All I can say of still life must finally fall short; I may inventory, weigh, suggest, but I cannot circumscribe; some element of mystery will always be left out. What is missing is, precisely, its poetry. — Mark Doty

One of the things you never really see in a romance book is a woman who has self-esteem issues. I mean, I'm sure they're out there, but they're few and far between. Like they can have eating disorders, post-traumatic stress from sexual assault or mental abuse. They can be sold into sex trafficking and they can carry epic amounts of grief. We have female characters who have suffered every loss imaginable and ones who are scarred physically and mentality, but where in the hell are the average women? Ones who look in the mirror and cringe a little? Like, why are all those others acceptable to women, but reading or knowing another woman who has a low self-esteem is, like, worse than all that drama llama? — J. Lynn

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all. — Vachel Lindsay

Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us... — Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

The people living in darkness have not yet see the light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The ultimate profanity is to invoke any deity in support of death or destruction in any form, particularly war. — Dee Hock

The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel, a play, or an opera can engage our emotions on behalf of people who are not only strangers to us, but who do not even exist! And a person whose emotions cannot be so aroused is not behaving normally. — John Derbyshire

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut. — Roald Dahl

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living. — Honore De Balzac

Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully - and you will see that nothing goes out of control; that your intelligence becomes sharper; that you become younger; that your love becomes deeper. And when you go out into the world, wherever you go, spread life, playfulness, joy, as far away as possible - to every nook and corner of the earth. — Osho