Unutility Quotes & Sayings

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream. — Steve Winwood

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself. — James Schuyler

One of the great "theologians" of our time, Sean Penn, put it this way: "When everything gets answered, it's fake. The mystery is the truth."21 — Rob Bell

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. — Leon Kass

Failure is Impossible — Susan B. Anthony

Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing like it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our nation's seniors is not the right approach. — Paul Tonko

Alex," Madison says through clenched teeth, "if you keep talking in bumper stickers, I am going to stab you in the face. — Katie Crouch

The person they'd locked up last summer was gone, and she wasn't coming back. — Juliet Marillier

Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeply
Must take great care they do not, Paddle too deeply.'
Thus spake the awful aging couple
Whose heart the years had turned to rubble.
But the little children, to save any brother,
Let it in at one ear and out at the other. — Stevie Smith

I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries. — Jayne Meadows

We should tend our freedom wisely. — Michel De Montaigne

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it. — Mark Twain

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves (William Penn)- It was painfully true. I ended up hurting far more than anyone else whenever I allowed jealousy to infect me. — Gillibran Brown