Quondam Define Quotes & Sayings

Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid. — Pema Chodron

A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty fucking cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too? — Bill Hicks

We mostly quarreled. He wanted what I wouldn't give. I wanted what he didn't have. — Larry McMurtry

We fought the Revolutionary War for no taxation without representation, it seems to me that we are much worse off today, because we are heavily taxed, and only the king's corporations control this Country, together with mob rule, of the special interests. — James Montgomery

I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles. — John Stewart Bell

Your death, strange human. I mean, your injury. No murder, just a little maiming. So I can leave. Maiming's not so bad. — Eliza Crewe

Sometimes love chooses us — Tabitha Suzuma

A little inventor, that's it! ... of a little gimmick! ... just a little gimmick that's all! ... I don't fling out messages to the world! ... not me, no sir! I don't clutter up the air with my thoughts! not me! I don't get high on words, nor on port, nor on the flattery of youth! ... I don't cogitate for the universe. I'm just a little inventor, of a two-bit gimmick at that! and that won't last long! like everything else! like the swivel-stem collar button! I'm aware of my paltry importance! anything rather than ideas! ... I leave ideas to the flea merchants! all ideas! to the hucksters, the pimps, the confusion mongers! ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I hate feeling like I don't belong. — Erin Watt

Every once in a while, there's somebody who will recognize me and want a picture, which is cool; it's flattering. — Brandon Jenner

You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.
From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover) — Jonah Lehrer

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie. — Georg Buchner