Quemado Quotes & Sayings

You can't explain grace, anyway, especially when it arrives almost despite yourself. I didn't even ask for it, yet somehow it breached and began to work. — Leif Enger

Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got right on their side. — Stephen King

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change. — Alfred North Whitehead

I obsess over things ... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming. — Tony DiTerlizzi

Kids are constantly evolving, learning, and growing. They aren't who they were yesterday. — Rachel Vail

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power. — Craig Newmark

Another two-bowl morning? - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class — P.C. Cast

Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do. — Bill Murray

I leave this as a declaration of intent, so no one will be confused. One: "Si vis pacem, para bellum." Latin. Boot Camp Sergeant made us recite it like a prayer. "Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war." Two: Frank Castle is dead. He died with his family. Three: in certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue... natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment. — Jonathan Hensleigh

Life is like the sea. Its tides and currents sometimes take a man to distant shores that he never dreamed existed — Jocelyn Murray

What does it feel like to be latent?
I don't know. What does it feel like to be so old that your birth certificate is in Roman numerals? — Suzanne Wrightt

Opportunity finds you when it's ready, not when you are. — Katie Delahanty

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism. — Talcott Parsons

Refutations of the views of inherently existent production are not just refutations of rival systems but should be taken as a branch of the process of overcoming one's own innate sense that things are inherently produced. The innate non-analytical intellect does not conceive cause and effect to be either the same, or inherently different, or both, or neither; however, if the objects that the intellect misconceives as inherently existent did in fact inherently exist, they would necessarily exist in one of these four ways. Thus, through eliminating these four possibilities, the inherently existent products that are the objects of this innate ignorance are shown to be non-existent. By attacking in this way the falsely conceived object, the falsely conceiving subject is gradually overcome. The false subject is removed by overcoming belief in the false object. — Jeffrey Hopkins

If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you. — Fred DeVito