Wount Quotes & Sayings

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. — Edward Abbey

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness. — Joseph J. Ellis

Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love ... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly. — Audrey Niffenegger

In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people actually had very few choices in their lives. Most things happened to you. Most things rolled right over you and then kept on going. — Alice Hoffman

He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts. — Johann Kaspar Lavater