Straxus Quotes & Sayings

Love is the demiurge that builds substance from the elements of our lives.

From "Big Enough for the Entire Universe — Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

You cannot win the future if you don't forgive your past — Ikechukwu Joseph

I not only listen to country music - I have a like for R&B music. — Danielle Bradbery

Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question. — A.E. Samaan

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought. — Douglas Horton

I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories. — D.H. Lawrence

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No. — William F. Buckley Jr.

You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see. — Mackenzie Phillips

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing. — Rachel Naomi Remen

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. — Emily Murphy

A book can only end one of two ways: truthfully or artfully. If it ends artfully, then it never feels quite right. It feels forced, manipulated. If it ends truthfully, then the story ends badly, in death. It's the reason most theories and religions and economic systems break down before you get too far into them
and the reason Buddhism and the Beach Boys make sense to teenagers, because they're too young to know what life really is: a frantic struggle that always ends the same way. The only thing that varies is the beginning and the middle. Life itself always ends badly. — Jess Walter