Symphonica Easier Quotes & Sayings

Their message is conveyed in that hortatory tone and declamatory voice used by politicians when starting a condition contrary to fact. People who aren't cowed don't spend a lot of time proclaiming they won't be cowed. Leaders who really have strengthened the voice of freedom don't don't need to reassure there electorates that they're committed to doing so. — William Kristol

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. — David Brainerd

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did. — Francis Schaeffer

How would she ever look at Redding again? How could she face his critical scrutiny? — Eliza Lloyd

My eyes shifted to the trickling river. Come spring, it would be ten times as wide and just as deep. On and on it went, rushing toward the distant horizon. Like time. Like life. Sometimes gently falling from one pool into the other, other times fast and cascading, and still other times narrowing into a funnel, a torrent of knots and waves. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them
then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart. — Mark Twain

Yes, after all, if I were to join you, I might enjoy myself, and wouldn't that be a shame? Please, don't spare me another thought. — Libba Bray

Loneliness is a kind of suffering you can alleviate. It's not something you have to endure, like grief. — Dean Bakopoulos

You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive. — Pascal Bruckner

I am too fucking fragile. I hate being fragile. — Dave Eggers

But I'm more scared of not writing. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am. — Sarah Hall

Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and be a skeleton, naked and anonymous. — Isaac Marion

Men have courage-one knows that ... but they are more easily deceived than women. — Agatha Christie

Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving. — Cyprian