Palimpsest Synonym Quotes & Sayings

I feel that my fingers have brushed one of life's deep, coursing threads ... Speak, even notice it, and it would disappear. — Barry Lopez

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud. — Cory Doctorow

When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself. — Chloe Thurlow

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades. — Charles Dickens

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom. — Omar Khayyam

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience. — Kahlil Gibran