Petered Away Quotes & Sayings

Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely. Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is. — Drake

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. — Timothy Radcliffe

He lifted a hand and turned and went on. He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him. Walking down the little street for the last time he felt everything fall away from him. Until there was nothing left of him to shed. It was all gone. No trail, no track. The spoor petered out down there on Front Street where things he'd been lay like paper shadows, a few here, they thin out. After that nothing. A few rumors. Idle word on the wind. Old news years in traveling that you could not put stock in. — Cormac McCarthy

We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens. — Michael A. Singer

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. — Wendell Berry

Wish I could prove I love you, but does that mean I have to walk on water? — Utada Hikaru

soothing seemed to work and soon the grunts petered away in to the rhythmic rasping of animal slumber. To keep the camel calm, he removed his saddle and unstrapped the heavy bag from its back, and took out his robe. In — Tony Wilson