Mincepies Quotes & Sayings

He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning, a story worth telling. That death will come to them as a dread scholar, a fell knight, a terrible emperor.
Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit. — Joe Abercrombie

A lie repeated many times doesn't change the truth. — Frank Sonnenberg

For a brief moment I thought that Stanley the Magical Squirrel had been alive up until only seconds before, when my father had chosen to give him some sort of bizarre colorectal exam gone horribly wrong. Then I realized that this was, more likely, a squirrel my father had found dead on the road, and that he had sliced it open and decided to use it as some sort of grotesque hand puppet culled from the very bowels of hell. Lisa — Jenny Lawson

Smart people always choose comfort over luxury — Celso Cukierkorn

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement. — Andrew Sullivan

Damn, her mouth was a weapon. — Kelly Moran

I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it. — Benjamin Stone

Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man that makes him want to have power over a woman - whether it's in the bedroom or because they earn more money. It boosts their egos. — Jodie Marsh

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. — Edward Steichen

Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,
Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;
Custards for supper, and an endless host
Of syllabubs and jellies and mincepies,
And other such ladylike luxuries. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Any religion is an illusion to others — Oscar Wilde

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from. — Fran Lebowitz

While it may be true in some instances that our promised blessings will be fulfilled only in the eternities, it is also true that as we search, pray, and believe, we will often recognize things working together for our good in this life. — Susan W. Tanner