Unavailingly Quotes & Sayings

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression. — Farah Diba

We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis. — Milton Friedman

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.' — Caroline Knapp

Too many of the men today are mice, not men. Too many of the women of our age are vain, not valiant. We are paranoid of the battle, not productive in it. We are soft where we should be solid, and hard where we should be soft. — Eric Ludy

As midnight came, he named every star in the sky after her. — Frauke Heyde

You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore. — Michael Loceff

If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that's quite attractive. I think about our community often in that way — Henri J.M. Nouwen

A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected. — Bob Ehrlich

With God all things are possible, without you God cannot work out the possible — J. Wilson

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing. — Babatunde Adebimpe

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts. — Nick Tosches

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Mortal, what hast thou of such grave concern
That thou indulgest in too sickly plaints?
Why this bemoaning and beweeping death?
For if thy life aforetime and behind
To thee was grateful, and not all thy good
Was heaped as in sieve to flow away
And perish unavailingly, why not,
Even like a banqueter, depart the hall,
Laden with life? — Titus Lucretius Carus

I finally understand what it's like to be truly awake, and I never ever want to go back to sleep again. — Donna Cooner

Don't look back in life and have regrets. Go for your goal! — Shirley Bourrage

When I was a boy I was my father. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti