Mistiness Quotes & Sayings

If everyone in America agreed that 80 percent of their contributions for House, Senate, and president could only come from people making contributions of $100 or less, we'd have a pretty darn good system. The influence of money would be gone. — Brian Williams

Perhaps we are not really sinners in the hands of an angry God, after all. Perhaps we are all more like seedlings in the hands of a wise gardener. — Seth Adam Smith

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library. — Jules Verne

A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit. Another was a passion for secrets... — Ian McEwan

You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me? — Charlotte Eriksson

The mistiness of distance hides the truth — Isaac Asimov

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist. — Terence McKenna

As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am. — Elizabeth Bowen

That's the kind of guy you'd follow to hell and back. — Richelle Mead

If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it's because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me. — Ai Yazawa

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar. — Kenneth Tynan

Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you that it's not true and that it's blushing now just as I am blushing all over. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writings. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the 'broader and kinder systems', as they are called, which to my mind stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy. — J.C. Ryle

Maybe it wasn't what you give up - maybe it was what you receive. — Aleatha Romig