Pintous Quotes & Sayings

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over. — Dan Savage

Sunshine of late afternoon
On the glass tray
a glass pitcher, the tumbler
turned down, by which
a key is lying
And the
immaculate white bed — William Carlos Williams

All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true. — Ravi Zacharias

It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is. — Richard P. Feynman

The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create. — Nancy Duarte

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength. — Swami Vivekananda

Death is not the way they show it in the movies, with the dying person holding on just long enough for one last embrace, some final words of love or absolution. — Bethany Chase

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7. — Guillermo Del Toro

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love. — David Whyte

He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete. — Pat Cash

Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this. — Anne Lamott

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. — Henry David Thoreau