Pilafs Capsule Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine. — Adam Rex

Burroughs is crap. Crap. — Ray Bradbury

It's difficult to continue loving someone who shits on you. — Gene Wilder

We fear what we most desire. — Harley King

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses ... only through discipline may a man learn to be free. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE ... NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING VIGOR THAT THERE ISSUED THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WHICH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SO AUGMENTED THE NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY. — Kenneth Scott Latourette

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education. — Martin O'Malley

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar. — Stephen King

Why should a bad marriage have been so much more compelling than no marriage? Why had I clung to my misery so? Why did I believe it was all I had? — Erica Jong