Memories Being Captured Quotes & Sayings

I'm interested in villainy. — Jonathan Frid

I rot on the wall, my own
Dorian Gray. — Anne Sexton

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt. — Amy Alcott

What right have you to pray for me? I need no intercessor, I shall manage alone. The prayers of a wretch I might accept, but no one else's, not even a saint's. I cannot bear your bothering about my salvation. If I apprehend salvation and flee it, your prayers are merely an indiscretion. Invest them elsewhere; in any case, we do not serve the same gods. If mine are impotent, there is every reason to believe yours are no less so. Even assuming they are as you imagine them, they would still lack the power to cure me of a horror older than my memory. — Emil Cioran

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. — Douglas Coupland

Civilization was a defense against nature's raw power. — Gregory Benford

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you. — Leslie Vernick

Life is tough, man. No one is spared from obstacles and trials, but there is such a beautiful plan for each of us. Just gotta let it happen. — Taylor York

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community. — Hansie Cronje

The various torments of life worked in shifts so that one was always on duty. Thus was human misery extracted day and night like water and oil are pulled from the earth. Thus was the toll inflicted, the price one paid for being unwittingly born. — Hugh Howey

The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better. — Samuel Adams

I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age. — Sondra Radvanovsky

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer. — Raymond Carver