Waggish Def Quotes & Sayings

How could he be so cruel and still so human? — Leigh Bardugo

some things are so awful, you can't look them square in the face and some things make no sense no matter what angle you look at them from. and of course they happen in other people's lives, never in your own. — Mike McCormack

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter. — Thomas McGuane

In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell. — Tahir Shah

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite. — Paul Watson

A hairdresser holds a trusted place in a woman's life — Linda Wells

I have seen galaxies die. I have watched atoms dance. But until I had the dark behind the eyes, I didn't know the death from the dance. — Terry Pratchett

I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased. — Odilon Redon

Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

They were told they were on a holy mission and that their country would remember them. Now people turn away and try to forget the war, especially those who sent us there in the first place. — Svetlana Alexievich

My eyes were already habituated to the texture of decay, so I thought that I had passed back into the circle of light. — Emma Cline

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free. — Shannon L. Alder

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling

As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it.' Albert Einstein — Karishma Attari

No matter how good a story is, there is more at stake in the telling. — Rabih Alameddine