Shehr Zaat Quotes & Sayings

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. — Donald E. Westlake

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official. — Bob Keeshan

I love smashing stuff. — Norman Reedus

One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,
for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but according to the faith, humility and inner disposition of the repentance in which our soul is engaged. For this reason it is good to repent each day as the act of repentance is unending. — Symeon The New Theologian

I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no point in talking to him further. He wanted to make that decision independent of all other factors and we respect that. [on Damien Martyn retiring — Ian Chappell

My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid's curse,
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse! — George Peele

I had learned from my own father that it was almost blasphemy to regard the function of art as merely to reproduce some kind of a sensible pleasure or, at best, to stir up the emotions to a transitory thrill. I had always understood that art was contemplation, and that it involved the action of the highest faculties of man. — Thomas Merton

I would steal horses
for you, if there were any left — Sherman Alexie

It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace. — Kenneth Waltz

And there on the piss-soaked cobbles, his back to the alley and his face to the wall, lay the object of their diplomatic mission: A sleeping drunk. Colt lay out his hand in a flourish.
"Mr. Billings, may I introduce to you His Imperial Majesty Joshua Norton the First, Emperor of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico. — Jordan Stratford

Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings. — Cassandra Clare

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. — Karl Marx

Whelan was in the position he was, exactly — Jimmy Armfield

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. — George Carlin