Nonresponse Quotes & Sayings

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. - GALATIANS 6: 7 — Paul The Apostle

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine. — Lucy Larcom

Yes," I clipped out, "I know. Hurt happens."
I heard that long, weary exhalation.
"It does. That's life. It's the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the wins and the losses. I never thought you'd be too afraid to try. I though you were stronger than that. — Josh Lanyon

I could drive myself mad contemplating a great nothingness filled with a billion pinpoints of light and millions of drifting planets generating their myriad biological I=kingdom of insect, animal, sentient witness. — Anne Rice

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe. — Alice Childress

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get. — Stanley Elkin

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God. — Athanasius

I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder. — Matt Taibbi

A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King

What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up. — Ava Zavora

Our suffering comes from our unlived life
the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche. — C. G. Jung