Transpositions In Writing Quotes & Sayings

don't fast, I will never go on any pilgrimage, and I drink wine - and what's more, the air that makes it better. To cry out that I'm free, and that God is a question, not an answer, and that I want to meet him alone, at my death as at my birth. — Kamel Daoud

I like to use things that didn't exist 50 years ago, or 20 years ago even. — Kesh

It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself. — Jean Klein

And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts. Here may be found the first suggestion of the exclusive colonial policy that Spain and other nations followed. — Christopher Columbus

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow. — Mark Twain

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it. — Elbert Hubbard

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children. — Susie Orbach

Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable. — Mel Gibson

On the page was exactly what I had written, but it was clearer, more immediate. The erasures, the transpositions, the small additions, and, in some way, her handwriting itself gave me the impression that I had escaped from myself and now was running a hundred paces ahead with an energy and also a harmony that the person left behind didn't know she had. — Elena Ferrante

I wasn't just defending myself. I was defending Indians, black people, and buffalo. — Sherman Alexie

Unthankful people think they are the centre of the universe. They compare themselves with those who have more. They have forgotten God. Thankful people know who really is the centre of the universe. They compare themselves with those who have less. They always remember God. — Paul Krautmann