Unfastidious Quotes & Sayings

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through.
Z. Applewhite. — Stephanie S. Tolan

How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger. — Elizabeth Cunningham

The church must constantly promote dialogue. — Claudio Hummes

And when Hightower approaches, the smell of plump unwashed flesh and unfresh clothing
that odor of unfastidious sedentation, of static overflesh not often enough bathed
is well nigh overpowering. [ ... ] It is the odor of goodness. Of course it would smell bad to us that are bad and sinful. — William Faulkner

The flow of time is always cruel... its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it... A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days... — Sheik

Jessie rummaged through her purse for the necessary equipment. If there were one thing, Baley had once said solemnly, that had resisted mechanical improvement since medieval times, it was a woman's purse. — Isaac Asimov

New Terrans, she supposed. Unless the squatters' naming schema won out. Then ... what? Ilusians? Illusions? It was a stupid fucking name. — James S.A. Corey

Son," Mr. P said. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation. — Sherman Alexie

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import. — John Dewey

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. — Rainer Maria Rilke

In the course of our journey leading to Consciousness, our objective should not be creating a positive character, and thus a pleasant scenario, but finding the Existence behind every scenario. — Frank M. Wanderer

To bask in the present, care nothing about the future, and forget the past. — R.A. Salvatore

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain ... It just won't be the same. — Alan Moore

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sometimes you can just feel a person's decency in the same way that
sometimes you can intuit a lack of it. Phil had the air of a man who is fully attentively engaged Josh Hannah's first fiance had the air of a man trying not to look at his watch. Phil consistently interested himself in the lives of others Josh talked about himself. Phil looked at my sister with tenderness and humor Josh looked at her
as if she were an especially persistent gnat. — Rhoda Janzen