Vermiculate Quotes & Sayings

Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired? — Lord Byron

I was very rich now, a super myriad trillionaire in Samapatti transcendental graces, because of good humble karma, maybe because I had pitied the dog and forgiven men. But I knew now that I was a bliss heir, and that the final sin, the worst, is righteousness. So I would shut up and just hit the road and go see Japhy. — Jack Kerouac

I moved on with my life but I still have a big commitment to Terri. I made her a promise. — Michael Schiavo

There's somethin I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over. I remember one time I was hunkered down in the hobo jungle with some folks. We was talkin 'bout life, and this fella was talkin, said, 'People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass the by must pass thee by. — Ron Hall

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. — Cormac McCarthy

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home. — Sylvia Earle

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state ... it means the end of a thousand years of history. — Hugh Gaitskell

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics. — Elizabeth Warren

I don't listen to people who can't do stuff that I do. — Shaquille O'Neal

..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth. — Walter Ralston Martin