Posthumously Def Quotes & Sayings

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off. — Jim Thompson

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. — Josephine Baker

Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it. — James Surowiecki

Even those who are materially poor have something to offer, and in doing so, open themselves up to the circular energy of generosity and abundance. — Stephen Richards

Iraq and Afghanistan will, over time, become stable. But the War on Terror will continue long after Iraq and Afghanistan have had success in standing up their own governments. — Peter Pace

I was kind of tired, I guess, of knowing people are flesh. Flesh and water. — Banana Yoshimoto

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness. — Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating. — Chris Hadfield

Patti, did art get us?'
I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'
Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint. — Patti Smith

but, like an alcoholic or a fan of the Dave Matthews Band, he ultimately couldn't control his self-destructive addiction. — Nick Offerman

We will have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only a few short hours to win them. — Amy Carmichael

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset