Peguy Aristile Quotes & Sayings

The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual. — Steven Lopez

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. — Will Durant

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust

The thing is that this life is so precious and mysterious, I don't know what to say about it most of the time. Words are like birds, passing through the trackless sky. The dog barking, the sound of the purling stream, the wind among the weeping willow trees: how are these not right off the tongue of the Buddha?
Lama Surya Das — Lama Surya Das

Who, being loved, is poor? — Oscar Wilde

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice ... even when all seems dark around us. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Some people value sentiments over diamonds. — Cassandra Clare

I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong. — Judah Friedlander

Even Asmodeus, that limping devil who looked through rooftops at men's most secret actions, could not have told which of these thoughts masked an undercurrent of joy -- the joy of the man who know that he has killed wisely and well. — Anthony Boucher

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet — Abraham Lincoln

Do you ever feel that way, though?" "What way?" "Like you could go back to some time that's passed? Like you catch yourself thinking, why don't I go there anymore, and why don't I see those people and attend those parties, and then you remember it's because that life is gone? And that you can't? — Jennifer DuBois

I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land. — Henry David Thoreau

I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE IT UP TO A CHILD TO DECIDE TO EAT JESUS. I HAVE THE HIGHEST RESPECT FOR WHATEVER YOU DO, BUT MY GRANDCHILD IS NOT GOING TO EAT JESUS. I'M SORRY. THAT IS OUT OF THE QUESTION. HERE'S WHAT I'LL DO FOR YOU. I'LL GIVE YOU THE BAPTISM. THAT'S ALL I CAN DO FOR YOU. — Philip Roth