Savorless Quotes & Sayings

I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be. — Norton Juster

We are all poets, really. — Walter Lowenfels

Life is but thought. — Sara Teasdale

Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed. — Kenneth E. Boulding

May the peace of God be with all people. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I nipped little kisses along his jawline. God, I just couldn't keep my hands or lips off of him. "God, you are the most delicious thing I have ever tasted."
He laughed. "That's something the vampire should be saying to you, not the other way around. — Tish Thawer

Happiness depends not on things around me, but on my attitude. — Alfred Armand Montapert

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat - and some smartass had sold them guns. — Daniel Suarez

It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness, of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment ... the contentment of the quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is slavery self-sought and self-defended. It is dullness made God. A savorless people, gulping tasteless food, and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world. — Sinclair Lewis

No matter how often or deeply I thought about the struggled past or the sorrow and promise of the present, I couldn't make that leap of confidence or trust or faith into the future. There was something missing: some calculation, some piece of evidence or parallax view of my life that would make it all clear to me, I was sure, but I didn't know what it was. — Gregory David Roberts

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. — Edward Cocker

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance. — Shunryu Suzuki

Whereas previously men were differentiated only by their culture, the community is all of sudden split into economically determined classes and, with the cheap products of the factory, a poverty without beauty invades the homes; ugly, senseless, and comfortless poverty is the most widespread of all modern achievements. — Titus Burckhardt

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand. — Margaret Halsey