Preceed Quotes & Sayings

I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for working on the Sabbath or switching on a light on the Sabbath. So the point is that you can find good bits of the Bible but you have to cherry-pick, you have reject the nasty bits and pick the nice bits. — Richard Dawkins

Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift. — Cindy Ross

With enough coffee anything is possible — Karen Salmansohn

If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless. — Saint Augustine

And may you always remember that obstacles in the path are not obstacles, they ARE the path. — Jane Lotter

That's our job. We're supposed to protect and defend the taxpayers." He smiled, and in the dark I wasn't sure if the government man or Susan had been more intimidating, but for totally different reasons. One because it represented a soulless entity with the power to suck the very blood from the innocent, and the other because it was a vampire. — Larry Correia

Hands full of sand,
I say: take this,
this is what I have saved;
I earned this with my genius,
and because I love you...

Take this, hurry.
I am dropping everything
and then I listened:
I was not saying anything;
out of all that had gone into
the composition of the language
and what I knew of it
I had chiselled these words
- take this, hurry-
and you could not hear me.
I had said nothing.
And then I am leaving,

making ready to go to another street,
when you, mingled between sleep
and delirium, turned

and handed me an empty sack:
Take this, my friend;
I am not coming back.
The ghost of a flower poised on your lip — James Tate

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Much as I love looking at the stars, I never learned to guide by them. I mark my course by people. — Ally Condie

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor. — Sean Covey

You die a little inside every time you have joyless sex. Neurons prune back. The good in there withers. And some things never grow back. — Hugh Howey

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset. — Jean-Claude Juncker

Into each life some rain must fall. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In fact, when Warren Buffett was once asked about the key to success, he pointed to a stack of nearby books and said, "Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it. — Warren Buffett

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question. — Ambrose Bierce

Giving does not only preceed receiving; it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive. — Israelmore Ayivor

Love and light will always win against hatred and darkness, Emilia. It may take years, generations even but it always eventually will. Always. — Bella Forrest