Van Zander Quotes & Sayings

Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler ... He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to crack. Only I did ... Only I cracked, alone, later in the one place in our house where I knew I could go to be apart from the living and all that they cannot not do. — Philip Roth

A skilled warrior goes into a fight knowing his only fight is with death. An unskilled warrior goes into a fight only to win. — Cole Gibsen

I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced. — Dale Chihuly

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen. — Kodo Sawaki

I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood. — Mercy Otis Warren

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind. — Keith Henson

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just. — Plautus

Oh shit, I thought, if this isn't the Low King of the Dwarves then I'm the President of the Cricklewood Branch of the Women's Institute. — Ben Aaronovitch

Going blind every time you drain a boiling pan of pasta, because it steams up your glasses real bad. — Caitlin Moran

Follow your inclination. It will take you to the thoughts you'd never known you'd had. — Rachel Simon

Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling. — Willard Gaylin

This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty. — Stephen Batchelor