Todays Wise Quotes & Sayings

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

There's no going back. Once you know something for sure, the only path through it is forward. Alfred — Aaron Hartzler

Then we're dead all that much sooner. So it goes. — Steven Erikson

He has the merit - if it is one - of saying exactly what he means. — E. M. Forster

I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do. — Curtis Jackson

... books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life. — Louisa May Alcott

Tales of triumph are my favourite. — S.A. Tawks

I sit in front of the fireplace, with his arm around me solid as the back of a chair. I walk along the breakwater in the soothing Vancouver drizzle, the halftones of the seashore, the stroking of the small waves. In front of me is the Pacific, which sends up sunset after sunset, for nothing; at my back are the improbable mountains, and beyond them an enormous barricade of land.

Toronto lies behind it, at a great distance, burning in thought like Gomorrah. At which I dare not look. — Margaret Atwood

When things are easy, I hate it. — Ernest Shackleton

Sin is sweet in commission, but bitter in remembrance. — Thomas Manton