Percydavis Quotes & Sayings

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love. — Carl Jung

democracy without real patriotism moves toward the destruction of the ordered liberty bequeathed to us by the founders. — Eric Metaxas

Day n night passing by,
No tribute, we cannot deny,
We did to world's problems so deep,
Not a single sign, to take the leap.

Senseless striving for some unknown glory,
Too patiently awaiting time for our story.

Still haven't spot that light,
That make us seem calm n bright.
How to ensure tis time-being,
Is not in vain, but commencement of freeing. — Akilnathan Logeswaran

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me. — J. Cole

You might say that S. has only himself to blame, that it is entirely his choice to fight this fight, to live a life of vigilant somnolence or somnolent vigilantism, to allow himself to be satisfied with Sola in the margins of his manuscripts instead of in his arms, and you might be right. But you ought to understand, too, that there's an attrition that takes place inside, one in which options and choices and even desires are ground ever smaller until finally their existence can no longer be confirmed by observation or weight or displacement but only by faith. Until desire is a ghost. — Doug Dorst

He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier. — Dave Barry

By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest. — Ashanti

A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence the moment it is released ... The whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct control and more and more seem to have the beginning of a will of their own. — Isaac Asimov

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. — Bill Vaughan

She wanted to believe that information brought clarity. Not for the first time in her life, however, she had the disconcerting notion that it was often the opposite. Information was a jar of flies, and when you unscrewed the lid, they went everywhere and good luck to you trying to round them all up again. — Joe Hill

I'm getting the feeling that you two don't like me. - Kristy — Matthew Leeth

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense. — Ethan Coen

Just fuck me. Use me. I'll be your horny slut. Your fuckdoll whore. — C.D. Reiss

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, Use it well, use it wisely. — John Steinbeck