Metirionic Quotes & Sayings

Where we are,
There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,
The nearer bloody. — William Shakespeare

The absolutely awesome incredible power of belief is the genie in your life. — Eldon Taylor

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. And — Alexander Hamilton

In the Eucharist a communion takes place that corresponds to the union of man and woman in marriage. Just as they become "one flesh", so in Communion we all become "one spirit", one person, with Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI

Evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good. — Agatha Christie

Cleon II was Lord of the Universe. Cleon II also suffered from a painful and undiagnosed ailment. By the queer twists of human affairs, the two statements are not mutually exclusive, nor even particularly incongruous. — Isaac Asimov

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love. — Ford Madox Ford

Love is like jumping off a cliff, even when you know you're acrophobic. — Lark Books

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good. — Tim Tharp

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies. — Giuseppe Mazzini

I don't care if you are a good mathematician, or a good athletic, or not good at anything- that you think. But I'm gonna come and tell you that you're awesome the way you are. — Nick Vujicic

I've collected his life insurance, that's how dead he is! — Sue Grafton

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content. — Alan Sokal

Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise. — Marilynne Robinson

All those other summers and those other kisses and everything else we shared, my dad choosing some random lake in some random town to stay in one year, the fights and the screw ups that helped us learn and gave us experiences with other people. They were all meant to happen, and our paths were supposed to cross over and over again. Until we found that point, the bright star in the summer sky that would be ours forever. — Nyrae Dawn