Undialed Quotes & Sayings

Books fall open, you fall in. — David McCord

Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Every artist is an unhappy lover. — Iris Murdoch

Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old. — Nell Newman

What I have given, I can take away and restore when it pleases Me. What I give remains Mine, and thus when I take it away I take nothing that is yours, for every good gift and every perfect gift is Mine. — Thomas A Kempis

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. — Muriel Spark

I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time. — Bill Laswell

So it went. Bob was increasingly cynical, leery, uneasy; Jesse was increasingly cavalier, merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. If his gross anatomy suggested a strong smith in his twenties, his actual physical constitution was that of a man who was incrementally dying. He was sick with rheums and aches and lung congestions, he tilted against chairs and counters and walls, in cold weather he limped with a cane. He coughed incessantly when lying down, his clever mind was often in conflict, insomnia stained his eye sockets like soot, he seemed in a state of mourning. He counteracted the smell of neglected teeth with licorice and candies, he browned his graying hair with dye, he camouflaged his depressions and derangements with masquerades of extreme cordiality, courtesy, and good will toward others. — Ron Hansen

Feeling good about ourselves is a choice. So is feeling guilty. — Melody Beattie

Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja. — Barry Lyga

Time is a curious thing: For years you take it for granted, then one day something happens and you are reminded of how precious it really is... — Jason R. Hemmings

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Is it better, financially, to go to the physics department than the philosophy department?" Tsukuru asked. "When it comes to their graduates not earning anything, they're about even. Unless you win the Nobel Prize or something," Haida said, flashing his usual winning smile. — Haruki Murakami

The work praises the man. — Charles L. Allen