Nonfunerals Quotes & Sayings

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. — Wendell Berry

When we're shooting, I commute to the UK, every three weeks or so, and that's hard. That's probably the toughest, physically, on me. It's a much longer commute than I've ever had to deal with. And then, there are the challenges of this particular production. It's not the kind of show that has standing sets. — Ronald D. Moore

God never violates the trust we put in Him. — Neva Coyle

Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know. — David Lloyd George

Sometimes all you've got is yourself. — Abdul Manan

I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination. — Nikola Tesla

The problem is that nobody talks about what they make. It's shame disguised as humility. Screw that. I'm a thirty-two-year-old assistant and I make $30,000 a year. — Camille Perri

Every girl deserves her happily ever after... — Silvia Diego

Here upon the earth evil is such was Shakespeare's declaration in the most emphatic accent. Iago actually exists. There is also in the earth a sacred passion of deliverance a pure redeeming ardor. Cordelia exists. — Edward Dowden

Okay, here is the uplifting part: Your life isn't and has never been about you ... about what you accomplish, how successful you are or are not, how much money you make, what sort of position you ascend to, ... or how much good you do for others or the world at large. Your life, like mine, and like everyone else's has always been about one thing: love. — Zoketsu Norman Fischer

How did Adam do it? He seemed to be able to look past Miles's weirdness and insecurities and awkwardness to see Miles, himself, what he was-whatever he was-inside. — Rowan Speedwell

Those right or left wing radicals are not our problem.
Those devils that hurt us are long gone.
As men and women, we find the only enemy (with power) we have is our choices to avoid love or cling to it with everything we got! — Matthew Akers

Some of the vamps formed into smaller groups, to chat or plot or whatever vamps did at undead nonfunerals. Oddly, they talked about the stock market and the latest flare-up in the Middle East, like any well-educated group of humans. It was almost as disorienting as hearing them quote Jesus. Then, — Faith Hunter

How far the gentlemen of dark complexion will get with their independence, now that they have declared it, I don't know. There are serious difficulties in their way. The vast majority of people of their race are but two or three inches removed from gorillas: it will be a sheer impossibility, for a long, long while, to interest them in anything above pork-chops and bootleg gin. — H.L. Mencken