Relishingly Quotes & Sayings

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end. — Virginia Woolf

Can we go back to the part about Moroi girls hanging out in LA?" asked Adrian hopefully.
"Can you direct me to some of the ... oh, let's say, more open-minded ones? — Richelle Mead

The very identity of racist Southerners depends upon contrasting themselves with those dirty black "nigras." But, conversely, the out-groups feel that they are really and truly "in," and nourish their collective ego with relishingly indignant conversation about squares, Ofays, Wasps, Philistines, and the blasted bourgeoisie. Even Saint Thomas Aquinas let it out that part of the blessedness of the saints in Heaven was that they could look over the battlements and enjoy the "proper justice" of the sinners squirming in Hell. All winners need losers; all saints need sinners; all sages need fools - that is, so long as the major kick in life is to "amount to something" or to "be someone" as a particular and separate godlet. — Alan W. Watts

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success. — Francis Bacon

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist. — Angela Carter

Lord, hang on to me. I know I should be hanging on to you, but I'm not. The truth is, I feel too wounded and broken and angry and rebellious and hurt right now to hang on to you. So if I'm going to get through this at all, it's got to be up to you. See me through this, Lord, hang on, please hang on to me and don't let go. — Karen Scalf Linamen

This is a great position to be in. I don't really believe there is any fighter, in any decade that can be in my position of luxury that I've been in for many years. — Bernard Hopkins

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week. — Bashar Al-Assad

We are all eaters of souls. — Dan Simmons

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. — David Hyde Pierce

When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn't sing; they only spoke. — Benjamin Clementine

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot. — Salma Hayek

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face. — Rick Riordan

If my account of our moral condition is correct, we ought also to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. — Alasdair MacIntyre