Unritual Quotes & Sayings

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. — Gertrude Stein

In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality was but one element of an affectional and educational relationship in which youths learned the ways of manhood — Barry D. Adam

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter. — Mitt Romney

Commonly, love isn't defined in the sense that it supposed to be. I find it often to be misunderstood. Love is like a principle, flowing out and in like the seasons. It's an attraction not just built by personal attachment, but by one's very presence. — Lionel Suggs

I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye. — Jennifer Lopez

I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV. — Bob Newhart

The light in that room was a kind of malpractice. — Adam Haslett

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it. — Gretchen Rubin

Christians worshiped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. Feelings are important in many areas but completely unreliable in matters of faith. — Eugene H. Peterson

After all, the internet didn't surf itself; someone had to look at strange porn, might as well be Max. — Richard Stephenson

Mitch stared at where her hand lay on Blake's crotch and appreciated that his friend didn't comment.

"Please tell me I don't have my hand some place inappropriate." Alana's voice broke. — Eden Summers

The assumption that numbers and mathematical or logical laws are mental is due to the even more widespread notion that only particular sensible entities exist in nature, and that relations abstractions, or universals cannot have any such objective existence - hence they are given a shadowy existence in the mind. — Fulton J. Sheen

In moments of peace such as I experienced that day with Edal there exists some unritual reunion with the rest of creation without which the lives of many are trivial. 'Extinct' applies as much to an essential mental attitude as to the vanished creatures of the earth such as the Dodo. We can no longer await some scientific revelation to avoid the destruction of our species in this context; the evidence is all there, the writing on the wall. The way back cannot be the same for all of us, but for those like myself it means a descent of the rungs until we stand again amid the other creatures of the earth and share to some small extent their vision of it, even though this may be labelled Wordsworthian romanticism. — Gavin Maxwell

Do not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of you. — Laozi

I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing. — Christopher Isherwood