Two Soldiers William Faulkner Quotes & Sayings

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused. — Samuel Johnson

Grief that finds no relief in tears makes other organs weep. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.' — Hillary Clinton

It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values. — Alice Waters

As Augustine says, God is at once both nearer than what is inmost to me and beyond what is highest in me. We can say all of this with some confidence merely because we can observe the divine simplicity's plural expressions and effects in contingent things, and from those abstract toward the reality of their unconditioned source. But, in the end, how that simplicity might be "modulated" within itself is strictly unimaginable for us. At that uncrossable intellectual threshold, religions fall back upon inscrutable doctrines, philosophers upon inadequate concepts, and mystics upon silence. "Si comprehendis, non est deus," as Augustine says: If you comprehend it, it is not God. — David Bentley Hart

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme
and when you so give yourself
you lose appetite ans sleep
it cannot be helped
— Charlotte Bronte

our belief is that our Brand, our Culture, and our Pipeline (which we internally refer to as "BCP") are the only competitive advantages that we will have in the long run. Everything else can and will eventually be copied. — Tony Hsieh

Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters. — Leonard Read