Portly Man Quotes & Sayings

I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had one I would. The soul and my concept of it are as ephemeral as anybody's, and possibly more so. — Joss Whedon

Let us fight as if it all depended upon us, but let us look up and know that all depends upon him. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant. — Blaise Pascal

At the age of forty the life you have lived so far, always pro tem, has for the first time become life itself, and this reappraisal swept away all dreams, destroyed all your notions that real life, the one that was meant to be, the great deeds you would perform, was somewhere else. When you were forty you realized it was all here, banal everyday life, fully formed, and it always would be unless you did something. Unless you took one last gamble. — Karl Ove Knausgard

A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff. — William Shakespeare

We are all the same ... all the same ...
longing to find our way back ...
back to the One ... back to the Only One! — Rumi

I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body of an unfortunate sibling, or with a fellow family member, and you end up even unconsciously rejoicing in the other person's unhappiness and being like, I am happy because I can see how unhappy these other people are. — Marco Roth

He was a portly man, aslop in coffee and gravid with Danish pastry. — Kurt Vonnegut

Danger has a bracing effect. — Sun Tzu

Smile, the worst is yet to come, — Mikky Ekko

As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely. — Ned Rorem

I drank, smoked and did drugs to get where I'm at. — Doug Stanhope

She was beautiful too and he knew that Ben — Michelle Muckley

As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body. — Claudia Rankine

Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. — Viet Thanh Nguyen