Vacuaide Quotes & Sayings

Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's pain. — Osamu Dazai

I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice. — Kate Zambreno

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when you're in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. It's a great trick. — Stephan Pastis

I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones. — Jason Mraz

I learned that one person hurting another really is like a hand curling into a fist to smash the foot. And that all that really matters is family and other people. And that the purpose of life is to find the Light of God, but not the light from some old guy with a beard sitting up there judging us. The light is the love we give each other on our way back home. And that God wouldn't mind if we spent a little less time telling him how great he is and a little more time loving each other, and not just the people we're supposed to love, but everyone. — Paul H. Magid

Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings — Swami Vivekananda

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails ... and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever.
- Anonymous Curse on Book Theives from the Monaster of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain — Anatole Broyard

Though she knew she was not personally responsible for the collective sins of the world, she couldn't shake a creeping shame for enslaving Africans, decimating the American Indian tribes, annihilating the passenger pigeon, building strip malls on California's beaches and leaving behind unsightly junk on the face of the moon. Clintus — Nevada Barr

The kings of modern thought are dumb. — Matthew Arnold

Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well as the head. — Henry Kirke White

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. — Bonnie Raitt

I am now scowling."
"You are. And its adorable. But only in small doses."
"Well, we cannot all be ridiculously jolly like you."
"Ah, but we should. — Chelsea Fine

Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. "It's a trap. — George Lucas

If illness' end be health regained then I
Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die. — Adelaide Crapsey

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero