Overmantle Quotes & Sayings

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum. — Eugene McCarthy

We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate. — Billy Graham

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well. — Henry Cabot Lodge

The funniest thing a comedian can do is not do it. — W.C. Fields

I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it's gone. — Abbi Glines

I don't like candy bars. I eat the big rectangular bars. You know - anything between 85 and 50 percent cocoa. — Andrew Luck

Audie was the cleverest man Moss had ever met. He was Yoda. He was Gandalf. He was Morpheus. Now he'd become a walking suicide note. — Michael Robotham

The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort. — Henry Adams

It is the circuit of the great ruinous deed when the name of the seventh is that of the fifth; when the third, even greater, the warlike stranger will take Paris, nor will Provence save her. — Nostradamus

The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation, the fair that once marked the harvest now takes place in late August, while tourist dollars are still in heavy circulation. Why celebrate the harvest when you harvest every week with a shopping cart? — Bill McKibben

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. — Rick Moody

If there were no mountains, humanity would be much lazier! Challenges make people hardworking! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Way to go, Hunter," Reese said sarcastically. "Maybe we should invite everyone's girlfriends to show up and hang out. Fuck privacy, right? — Jessica Clare

It's not that I don't believe you," Peter managed. "I'm sorry. It's just that ... it's only a story."
"Perhaps." She shrugged. "And perheps someday someone will say those very words about you, Peter. What do you say to that? — Justin Cronin

They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom. — Khalil Gibran