William Faulkner Quentin Compson Quotes & Sayings

The more guilt and shame that we have buried within ourselves, the more compelled we feel to seek relief through sin. — Brennan Manning

I knew I was crossing a line I shouldn't. I mean taking my brothers girl, I might as well call the morgue to reserve my spot. — Michelle Lynn

I don't want to be kept safe! I don't want to have someone constantly trying to keep me from tripping on my own incompetence. I want to live in a world where I know the rules, where people are just people. Not one where they keep trying to eat me. That's the reason I left the city in the first place. I don't want to be kept, not by anyone. — Meagan Spooner

He looked okay. No, to be honest. He looked a lot better than okay. He looked ... fine. Fine, as in get the Chiffons over here to sing a chorus. — Josh Lanyon

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain ... — Eugenie De Guerin

If you have credit card debt and credit card companies continue to close down the cards, what are you going to do? What are you going to do if they raise your interest rates to 32 percent? That's five times higher than what your kid is going to pay in interest on a student loan. Get rid of your credit card debt. — Suze Orman

What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp. — Ayn Rand

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel. — Greg Lynn

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside
from others. We do not accept it willingly. — Simone De Beauvoir

More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment. — Giovanni Ruffini

Only recently I've learned, it's an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize — David Archuleta

You could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain. — Molly Ivins

My experience showed me an ugly side of our human nature. That if we are told it's alright to step on someone, we will do so, in joy that we are not the one being stepped on. If we are told we can treat someone as lesser, we will do it, since it means we are more than they are." -Norrie, Seeing Through Sampson's Eyes — Pamela Schloesser Canepa