Quotes & Sayings About Old School Mates

The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes. — Habeeb Akande

For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and each other, and, what does not always follow, men who thoroughly enjoyed each other's company. — Robert Louis Stevenson

He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent. — Harold Bloom

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them. — Charles Lindbergh

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. — Baha'u'llah

And the filthy hides of which they'd divested themselves smoked and stank and blackened in the flames and the red sparks rose like the souls of the small life they'd harbored. — Cormac McCarthy

Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on. — Shannon L. Alder

The next day, William Lanney's much abused remains were carried in a coffin to the cemetery. The crowd of mourners was large. It included many of Lanney's shipmates, suggesting that the whaling profession in late-nineteenth-century Hobart was graced with a higher level of humanistic sensibility than the surgical profession. — David Quammen

You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated. — Michel Foucault

I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it. — Juliet Marillier

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. — W. Somerset Maugham

Will laughs. "Do you like it when I suck your dick?" "Your mouth is where my dick wants to go to die." "Romantic. — Leta Blake

You can't show someone how to play the drums in six weeks, but you can point them in the right direction. — Mike Joyce

Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo — Christopher Golden

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. — Eric Bogosian