Mantzanita Quotes & Sayings

Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Riding down the unhorsed Saxons and spearing and clubbing them and leaping from their mounts with knives and running about on the ground with a peculiar bandylegged trot like creatures driven to alien forms of locomotion and stripping the clothes from the dead and seizing them up by the hair and passing their blades about the skulls of the living and the dead alike and snatching aloft the bloody wigs and hacking and chopping at the naked bodies, ripping off limbs, heads, gutting the strange white torsos and holding up great handfuls of viscera, genitals, some of the savages so slathered up with gore they might have rolled in it like dogs and some who fell upon the dying and sodomized them with loud cries to their fellows. — Cormac McCarthy

Any great love comes from intense suffering — Ndiritu Wahome

The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying. — Carrie Vaughn

Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved. — J.G. Farrell

Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers. — Dinesh D'Souza

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself. — Thomas Jefferson

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. — Charles De Lint

Then we'll take the train to Paris tonight. There is a night train, isn't there? We'll catch it at Cannes. — Francoise Sagan

Then, as now, the cities were filled with the poor, and urban Christians' commitment to the poor was visible and striking. — Timothy Keller

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them. — Amit Kalantri

Reason is not a tyrannical God like Allah, or a bloodthirsty demon like Bhowanee; Reason does not speak in my ears but gives me ears to listen with. — Tabish Khair

If it's worth feeling bad about, it's worthy of amnesia. — Richard Bandler

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking. — Anita Roddick

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality. — Marc Collins-Rector