Traversier Iles Quotes & Sayings

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
[Lat., Horae
Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace

Men are far more likely to clean things with spit than women are. — Marc Schmatjen

You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences. — Esther Hicks

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves. — Yixing Zhang

Mom?" "Yes." "Nothing." "What is it, baby?" "Well it's just that wouldn't it be great if mattresses had spaces for your arm, so that when you rolled onto your side, you could fit just right?" "That would be nice." "And good for your back, probably, because it would let your spine be straight, which I know is important." "That is important." "Also, it would make snuggling easier. You know how that arm constantly gets in the way?" "I do." "And making snuggling easier is important." "Very. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness, dead people need us to rememer them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I am sorry", until its as meaningless as air. — Audrey Niffenegger

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing. — Jeffrey Pierce

Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldiers' dreams — Matsuo Basho

By the way, I do think that awareness is different from thinking. I am similar to most other people, I believe, in that I do not really do my most important thinking in large, intentional blocks where I sit down uninterrupted in a chair and know in advance what it is I'm going to think about... It doesn't work like that for me. — David Foster Wallace

He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be. — Stacy Schiff

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right. — Hesiod

I cast a spell to make me Juliet. It worked. But I forgot that Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. I got what I asked for. — Douglas Rees

An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources. — Bryant McGill

Like imperfect sleep which, instead of giving more strength to the head, doth but leave it the more exhausted, the result of mere operations of the imagination is but to weaken the soul. Instead of nourishment and energy she reaps only lassitude and disgust: whereas a genuine heavenly vision yields to her a harvest of ineffable spiritual riches, and an admirable renewal of bodily strength. I alleged these reasons to those who so often accused my visions of being the work of the enemy of mankind and the sport of my imagination ... . I showed them the jewels which the divine hand had left with me: - they were my actual dispositions. — William James