Simplenote Linux Quotes & Sayings

This is a story, told the way you say stories should be told: Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with her lover in the country. This, of course, is the barest outline, and futile to discuss. It's as pointless as throwing birdseed on the ground while snow still falls fast. Who expects small things to survive when even the largest get lost? People forget years and remember moments. Seconds and symbols are left to sum things up: the black shroud over the pool. Love, in its shortest form becomes a word. — Ann Beattie

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means. — Jules Shear

We are a people used to grief. Expecting it even. — Tatjana Soli

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays! — Dan Abnett

Above all, I am anxious to grant no credence whatsoever to the special mythology of "the Enlightenment." Nothing strikes me as more tiresomely vapid than the notion that there is some sort of inherent opposition - or impermeable partition - between faith and reason, or that the modern period is marked by its unique devotion to the latter. One can believe that faith is mere credulous assent to unfounded premises, while reason consists in a pure obedience to empirical fact, only if one is largely ignorant of both. — David Bentley Hart

An industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art. — Charles Baudelaire

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. — Ray Lewis

What we are doing to develop leaders is not working! We are treating the symptoms and ignoring the disease. — Dave Anderson

... To be in time means to change. — C.S. Lewis

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people. — Young Jeezy

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. — Amy Grant

Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It's better to say that you haven't got the right pencil than to say you can't write, or to blame your computer for losing your chapter than face up to your feeling that it's better lost. — Hilary Mantel

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. — Oscar Wilde

Satisfaction. Now there's a loaded word. — Jennifer Topper