Uncompanioned Quotes & Sayings

Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Write only what you believe. — Robert McKee

You cannot step in the same river twice, because it is always flowing. — Osho

Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community. — Howard Coble

Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating against the window-panes, and streaking their dull, dark surfaces with runlets of cold, dirty moisture. Only a scanty modicum of daylight entered to war with the trembling rays of the ikon lamp. The dying man threw me a wistful look, and nodded. The next moment he had passed away. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong. — Sarah Orne Jewett

You've faced horrors in these past weeks ... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary. — Tasha Alexander

The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors. — Neil Postman