Paucisymptomatic Quotes & Sayings

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. — Joseph Conrad

I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid ... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865) — John Ruskin

I cannot know Jesus through another person's acquaintance with Him. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Whatever you decide to do, remember that you have to be able to go forward in life without looking back. — Nicholas Sparks

An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes. — Shannon L. Alder

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life. — Stephen King

It totally was elitist,' Julia says. 'So? There's nothing wrong with elitist. Some stuff is better than other stuff; pretending it's not doesn't make you open-minded, it just makes you a dick. — Tana French

For so long, I've kept those parts of me hidden, too uncomfortable in my own skin to be myself. Rob allows me to let my guard down, and I'm not even sure when that happened — Kata Cuic

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. — George Santayana