Usvsst Quotes & Sayings

To those Romans December twenty-fifth was the birthday of the sun. They wrote that in gold letters in their calendar. Every year about that time, the middle of winter, the sun was born once more and it was going to put an end to the darkness and misery of winter. So they had a great feast, with presents and dolls for everybody, and the best day of all was December twenty-fifth. That feast, they would tell you, was thousands of years old- before Christ was ever heard of. — John G. Jackson

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. — Leonard Woolf

In football, you're hitting, so you might as well hit in practice. — Logan Mankins

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. — Tao Lin

Make your body your sacred dweller. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause — William Shakespeare

Still he plied the lash without stint upon my poor body, until it seemed that the lacerated flesh was stripped from my bones at every stroke. A man with a particle of mercy in his soul would not have beaten even a dog so cruelly. — Solomon Northup

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave. — David McCullough

Everything has taken on a strange, distant quality - the sounds of running and shouting outside get warped and weird like they're being filtered through water, and Alex looks miles away. I start to think I might be dreaming, or about to pass out.
And then I decide I'm definitely dreaming, because as I'm watching, Alex starts peeling his shirt off over his head. — Lauren Oliver

Facts are not merely finding a footing-place in history but they are usurping the domain of fancy and have invaded the kingdom of romance. Their chilling touch is over everything. They are vulgarising mankind. — Oscar Wilde

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. — Neil Cross

An inchoate ball of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon, to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return. — Claire Messud

I'm honored to have been your first ... But I want to be your last. — Sylvain Reynard

I saw God! Do you doubt it?
Do you dare to doubt it?
I saw the Almighty Man! His hand
Was resting on a mountain! — James Kenneth Stephen