Samuel Langhome Clemens Quotes & Sayings

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ. — John Henry Newman

Breeze chuckled. I don't know if you noticed the earthquake a few minutes ago, my dear man, but the world appears to be ending. That is an indisputably depressing event. — Brandon Sanderson

You don't have to be rich to save the world. — Philani Dladla

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It's only that. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

To my precious members, who I hope to be with forever, I love you and thank you so much. — Choi Soo-young

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. — George Eliot

Proximity to the condemned and incarcerated made the question of each person's humanity more urgent and meaningful, including my own. — Bryan Stevenson

I should've blown more stuff up. -Coach Gleeson Hedge — Rick Riordan

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life. — Martin Luther

The basis of the practice is to directly participate in each moment as it occurs with as much awareness and understanding as possible. — Stephen Levine

I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris ... it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely to register the effects of violence - marked and dated as an indictment. — Peter Greenaway

Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican' — Dennis Prager

Exercise II.
Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:
Dear Diary,
I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity.
God alive, I feel supple. — Joe Dunthorne