Quailed Back Quotes & Sayings

One of my dinner companions invited me on a strip-club excursion. I demurred, spoiled by the erotic revues of Anhedonia, where the performers remain fully clothed but get emotionally naked, delivering monologues about their top-shelf disappointments, and times when they were almost happy. Hard to enjoy American-style strip clubs after that. Once you go bleak, you never go back. — Colson Whitehead

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly. — Diane Ackerman

As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God's love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win! — Richard Rohr

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power. — Bernie Mac

Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done. — Rafe Martin

People who live for things are never really happy, because they must constantly protect their treasures and worry lest they lose their value. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. — Samuel Johnson

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead — Ray Bradbury

They are my slaves [ books and papers ] and they must serve me as I please. — Karl Marx

It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas. — Norman Lock

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand. — Philip Zaleski

Each time a thought came knocking on the door of her mind, she viewed it cautiously. Was it true? Was it honorable? Was it pure or lovely? Was it of good repute? — Francine Rivers

He stretches languorously under me, and the silvery scar on his abdomen catches the light, that telltale mark from Sister Two when he fought her inside Butterfly Threads just weeks ago. When he almost died to help me and Jeb escape. But I didn't let him die, because I couldn't imagine a world without him.
I can't imagine a future without him, either. Not anymore. — A.G. Howard

A man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode. — Chanakya

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. — Miguel De Unamuno