Syler Thomas Quotes & Sayings

Bartender's smile widened. His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was — William Gibson

I wana go out like I came in... Naked and Screaming! — Christopher Baker

Everyone simply had to wait patiently in order to lose the people they loved one by one, all the while acting as if they weren't waiting for that at all. — Meg Wolitzer

The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer's own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that cannot be acquired in a single generation. — Eric Metaxas

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say. — Ezra Pound

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. — Mason Cooley

When all was said and done, it was conceivable that a being's purpose remained the same throughout his life, and Eddie's purpose was exactly what it had been when he was a boy, to pursue the light and find what was lost.
Page 87 — Alice Hoffman

For some reason the neatly ordered and abandoned books make me feel sad. Tired. I wish Cassia were with me. She'd turn each page and read every word. I can picture her in the dim light of the cave with her bright eyes and her smile and I close my eyes. That shadowy memory might be as close as I come to seeing her again. We have the map, but the distance we still have to cross looks almost insurmountable. — Ally Condie

I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions. — Anson Mount

More enslaving than our occupations, however, are our preoccupations. To be pre-occupied means to fill our time and place long before we are there. This is worrying in the more specific sense of the word. It is a mind filled with "ifs." We say to ourselves, "What if I get the flu? What if I lose my job? What if my child is not home on time? What if there is not enough food tomorrow? What if I am attacked? What if a war starts? What if the world comes to an end? What if . . . ? — Henri J.M. Nouwen