Thankfully Fresh Quotes & Sayings

The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie. — Sappho

Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action. — Baruch Spinoza

Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world. — Dianne Sylvan

People are like mussels. You can put them in a vat of boiling water, and some of them will pop open immediately. Some of them will have to float around in the water for a bit, then they'll slowly release. Others never open up at all, no matter what sort of hot water they're in. — Rhian J. Martin

Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero. — Mike Mentzer

God needs me. What would happen if there weren't people like me? If the world were perfect, if everything was the way you wished it to be, then why would you pray? God needs me, because without us, you forget about Him. — J.J. McAvoy

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before. — Jackson Browne

Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul! — Alan Watts

We say it's a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you're going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse.
- Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala — Eric Kripke

It is always through arbitrary combinations that experience enslaves the memory. — Barry Unsworth

The more civilians you bomb, the more resistance you grow. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie