Ritorneremo Quotes & Sayings

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. — Gary Snyder

May all your letters be received with an abundance of love. — Beth Wiseman

They are approaching now a lengthy brick improvisation, a Victorian paraphrase of what once, long ago, resulted in Gothic cathedrals - but which, in its own time, arose not from any need to climb through the fashioning of suitable confusions toward any apical God, but more in a derangement of aim, a doubt as to the God's actual locus (or, in some, as to its very existence), out of a cruel network of sensuous moments that could not be transcended and so bent the intentions of the builders not on any zenith, but back to fright, to simple escape, in whatever direction, from what the industrial smoke, street excrement, windowless warrens, shrugging leather forests of drive belts, flowing and patient shadow states of the rats and flies, were saying about the chances for mercy that year. — Thomas Pynchon

A small island with a big ego may see itself as a giant continent! A giant continent with a big diffidence may see itself as a small island! But in the end small is small and big is big! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister. — Julia Quinn

To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer, yet never letting him hear an example of the composer's music. — John R. Pierce

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan

He was like a seed still tethered to the withered flower, just waiting for the dead air of the late summer evening to break, for the storm to begin. — Ken Liu

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter. — Corrie Ten Boom

Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness. — Saint Augustine

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. — Don Marquis