Unshattered Bags Quotes & Sayings

I liked beginnings better than endings. — Kim Harrison

I am a new creation in the Christ Jesus. Amen! — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit. — Tom Petty

The weaker sex, to piety more prone. — William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Cicero said that even if his lifetime were to be doubled he would still not have time to waste on reading the lyric poets. — Edward Hirsch

New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun. — Bill Maher

There's many a boy here today that looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.

General William T. Sherman, Address, 1880 — John Podlaski

Whatever truth you have chosen, read only a small portion of it, endeavouring to taste and digest it, to extract the essence and substance thereof, and proceed no farther while any savour or relish remains in the passage: when this subsides, pick up your book again and proceed as before, seldom reading more than half a page at a time, for it is not the quantity that is read, but the manner of reading, that yields us profit. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

I need to know how you did it it.
I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, witch panache and style. That's how I did it.
(Shadow & Mad Sweeney) — Neil Gaiman

It already smells good," he said, pointing toward the stove. "It smells ... quiet." He looked at her.
"Quiet? Could something smell quiet" She was thinking about the phrase, asking herself. He was right. After the pork chops and steaks and roasts she cooked for the family, this was quiet cooking. No violence involved anywhere down the food chain, except maybe for pulling up the vegetables. The stew cooked quietly and smelled quiet. — Robert James Waller

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it. — Avey Tare

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. — Johann Sebastian Bach

Joan Wernick said she took two lessons from the crash. You're going to die when you're supposed to die. — Laurence Gonzales

Take your hate out on me, show me how much you hate me. Show me how much I hurt you." "What? You're crazy," she squeaked, backing away from me. "And I'll show you how much I've always wanted you, how fuckin' sorry I am. I'll make you forget everything," I said, closing the distance between us again. — Ellie R. Hunter