Perennially Losing Quotes & Sayings

It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. Come on. — Jacqueline Carey

When you awaken to true nothingness and all the empty fictions you once thought of as "Me" disappear, then self-existent life without beginning and without end finally touches your heart. — Ilchi Lee

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. — Herman Melville

Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives. — Peter Friedman

It is not age but experience that brings wisdom. — Jeffrey Fry

Each time she appears, she narrows that down for us. Since she can only make projections five miles away from wherever her base is, each time she does appear, we learn more about where she might be."
I nodded slowly. "Like a catapult that shoots enormous grapes. — Brandon Sanderson

It was a moonless night, although the cloudless sky was ablaze with stars. Whatever the circumstances, she always found the starlit night sky profoundly moving. — Alan McCluskey

Fucking black was fucking exotic. And America loves to fuck exotic. Put black vengeance and white guilt together in the same bed and you had a night to remember! — Dany Laferriere

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it. — Benjamin Clementine

One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear. — Margaret Kennedy

Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these ... We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized by the word of prayer, that food which by assimilation nourishes our flesh and blood, is the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus. — Justin Martyr

Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely ... It is simply the most ordinary place in the world ... It was so shabby and makeshift ... a place where poetry could never occur. — David Malouf

To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose. — Oliver Goldsmith

When the U.S. government stops wasting our resources by trying to maintain the price of gold, its price will sink to ... $6 an ounce rather than the current $35 an ounce. — Henry S. Reuss