Selectorized Quotes & Sayings

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. — James M. Barrie

Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year. — Peter Travers

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations. — Oscar Wilde

It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are. — S.J. Watson

I followed the river to the shallows where it spoke of its bed, in whispering tones as gentle as the sun's growing warmth. — Miles Richardson

Certainly If John moschos where to come back today it is likely that he would find much more than that was familiar and the practices of a modern Muslim Sufi then he would with those of, say, a contemporary American evangelical. Yet the simple truth has been lost by our tendency to think of Christianity as a western religion rather than the Oriental faith it actually is. Moreover the modern demonization of Islam in the west, and the recent growth of Muslim fundamentalism (itself in many ways a reaction to the West's repeated humiliation of the Muslim world), have led to an atmosphere where few are aware of, or indeed wish to be aware of, the profound kinship of Christianity and Islam. — William Dalrymple

You alright?' Frey asked him. Crake gave him an accusing glare. 'I thought I'd given up all dignity long ago when I joined this crew,' he said. 'But this? This is a new low, Frey.'
'It's character-building,' said Frey. — Chris Wooding

In this summer heat, I must remember that the realest things are the closest and farthest away, like the warmth found in winter: the heat hidden in the folds of one's coat, a lost floating breath, a kiss across the distance of zero degrees. — Meia Geddes

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America. — Henry Cabot Lodge