Ordman Alley Quotes & Sayings

Maybe you think death is the opposite of life, or that all this death-awareness stuff translates into the end of happiness and good times, but this is not the case. Death isn't morbid, fear is morbid. Death doesn't oppose life, fear opposes life. To close your eyes to death is to close them to life: what could be more morbid than that? From your perspective, death and suicide are horrific and unthinkable. From my perspective, they are empowering and lifeaffirming. and I would look at any person that doesn't have an open, honest relationship with these subjects as themselves nine parts dead. — Jed McKenna

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace. — William Shakespeare

He counts to ten as quick as any man, I have seen him do it ... though when he needs to go to twenty he does take off his boots. — George R R Martin

Tired people aren't witty — Teri Hatcher

But life is not inclined to let any of us escape. — Chris Cleave

Time in its aging course teaches all things. — Aeschylus

If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns. — Ezra Klein

The more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside to the right hand or left for the precepts and traditions of men - the more instruction and help they afford one another. — Elias Hicks