Rifling Civil War Quotes & Sayings

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian. — Paulina Porizkova

Being human, we struggle constantly to stay with the miracle of what is and not to fall constantly into the black hole of what is not. This is an ancient challenge. As the Sufi poet Ghalib said centuries ago, Every particle of creation sings its own song of what is and what is not. Hearing what is can make you wise; hearing what is not can drive you mad. — Mark Nepo

Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma. — Janeane Garofalo

You can't control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can't do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else — Marie Sexton

I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go. — Lucan

What is pity but the vice of kindness. — Emile M. Cioran

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself. — Percy Lubbock

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting. — Michael Ondaatje

I have thought briefly about getting caught in rock slides or falling from a rock face. If that happened, I would probably perish on the mountain in much the same way many of the big animals do. I would be long gone before anyone found me. My only wish would be that folks wouldn't spend a lot of time searching. When the time comes for a man to look his Maker in the eye, where better could the meeting be held than in the wilderness? — Richard Proenneke

Time will tell if it was well spent.
Time will tell where all your ideas went.
Time will allow you to achieve your goals.
Time is too precious to put on hold.

Don't waste time on meaningless things.
Take advantage of its benefits and all life brings. — Bianca McCormick-Johnson

Don't give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat. — Bill Bowerman