Xanadu Song Quotes & Sayings

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on. — Pat Barker

Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say. — Wynn Bullock

Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war ... war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil. — George Orwell

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many. — Jason Ritter

The writer Anne Lamott says, "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."28 — Parker J. Palmer

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The world ... is too full of real evil for me at least, to cause one moment of unnecessary uneasiness to any of its poor pilgrims. 'Tis strange ... that this is not more generally considered, since the advantage would be so reciprocal from man to man. But wrapt up in our own short moment, we forget our neighbour's long hour! and existence is ultimately embittered to all, by the refined susceptibility for ourselves that monopolizes our feelings. — Fanny Burney

I pressed my lips together to keep from laughing. "You were hurt. Hurt people, like hurt animals, lash out at times." I was glad Toby — Lynn Cahoon

Changing the Law might take a while, he said simply. — Cassandra Clare

All men are brothered in Jesus Christ. — Pope Pius XII

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. — Samuel Johnson

We should have smashed through the door long ago," grunted Thor. Everyone had always thought of Thor as Lennie from Of Mice and Men: too big and too slow. The chief difference being that while Lenny accidentally hugged little animals to death, Thor had a penchant for beating the shit out of them with his war hammer, Mjolnir. — Dylan Callens

What did you put in that coffee?" he asked with a frown.
Courtney laughed. "A little splash of happiness. — Latrivia S. Nelson

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange. — Andrew Solomon