Trackntrace Quotes & Sayings

The insolence of wealth will creep out. — Samuel Johnson

If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the grotto and dotted with fort-like manors that are almost tiny villages, he has a view and a sensation of rare beauty. — Maynard Owen Williams

I really dislike the sort of people who aren't like other people. It's true other people are so boring. But so are the ones who aren't like them. — Antal Szerb

The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion. — Kayla Mueller

Wine is to women as duct tape is to men, it fixes EVERYTHING! — Tanya Masse

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A KING IN HALF-SLEEP

I wake from sleep within you. I turn and hold you in my arms, as a king in half-sleep thinks himself alone, then feels his bride next to him in bed, smells her hair, and remembers he has a companion.

Slowly waking more, he begins to talk. So I wake inside you, the pleasure, the soft-saying, the elegance of the hours we walk in wonder. I draw closer. When my servants ask of me, tell them I am near (2:186).

Then I remember Moses fainting in the presence, Jesus' face, the mysteries that the saints unfold, Muhammad's sure stance, lovers mixing together in their songs, and I know that I have been given these feet to walk the amazement you gave them. — Bahauddin

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought. — Kurt Vonnegut

He felt a giant among pygmies, a pike among crappies, as he stood there among the legislators, most of whom owed him for flavors - special bills passed for their law clients, state jobs for constituents, " contributions" for their personal campaign funds, and so on. — A.J. Liebling

You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live. — Sarah J. Maas

Write the book you'd want to read. — Martha Stewart

The biggest chunk of our thinking and/or beliefs is based on what we know from "the past," and that imposes a huge limitation on our possible happiness! — Kelly Corbet

It's about contradictions between us and inside us, between individuals and society, between dream and reality. Sometimes these contradictions express themselves in violence, such as racial conflict. And this mirror of crime can take us back to the Greek authors. — Henning Mankell

You know your relationship has run its course when, despite any feelings you may still harbour, it just is not worth the heartache anymore. — Shane K.P. O'Neill

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself. — Anthony Kiedis

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul. — Robert Genn