Melges Sailboats Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness. — Vasily Grossman

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here. — James Jones

We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future. — T. Mills

Of course, the books you read early, before 20, and love passionately, they get to you. Even if later on you can't read them again. You were shaped by certain books. All of us that read a lot, we're partly book-manufactured. It's really hard to talk about the influence of such books on you because it goes so deep. It's like, what was your father's influence on you, what was your mother's influence. How can you say? You grew up with it. So, you will find I dodge all questions about favorite books and so on. What does it matter what I like? — Ursula K. Le Guin

We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery. — Terence McKenna

More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches. — Thomas Guthrie

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small! — James Blish

Man is like a star, they both need to emanate to be. — A.D. Smith

Which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had? — Javan

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth. — Lenny Bruce

I instantly and absolutely mistrusted him. I
disliked all men as a matter of principle, but handsome men, especially ones with a strong chin and overbearing manner, were at the top of my 'things to exterminate to make this world a better place'-list. This particular specimen of manhood in front of me looked like just the kind of fellow who might have come up with the
brute force argument. — Robert Thier

Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. — Edward Abbey