Xcess Quotes & Sayings

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway. — J. Courtney Sullivan

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god). — Terry Pratchett

He continues to believe, here on his French leave, and at his ease, that the interference is temporary and paper, a matter of messages routed and orders cut, an annoyance that will end when the War ends, so well have They busted the sod prairies of his brain, tilled and sown there, and subsidized him not to grow anything of his own... — Thomas Pynchon

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth ... — Reginald Horace Blyth

The capacity of the brain to forsee the future has much to do with the fear of death.
For when the body is worn out and the brain is tired, the whole organism welcomes death. But it is difficult to understand how death can be welcome when you are young and strong, so that you come to regard it as a dread and terrible event. For the brain, in its immaterial way, looks into the future and conceives it a good to go on and on and on forever - not realizing that its own material would at last find the process intolerably tiresome. Not taking this into account, the brain fails to see that, being itself material and subject to change, its desires will change, and a time will come when death will be good. On a bright morning, after a good night's rest, you do not want to go to sleep. But after a hard day's work the sensation of dropping into unconsciousness is extraordinarily pleasant. — Alan W. Watts

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore. — Brian Tracy

You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment. — Logan Henderson

Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics. — Christopher Hitchens

The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world. — Marti Olsen Laney

Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly. — Ron Atkinson

Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an agreement for an immigration proposal that we will be putting out next week, ... our proposal is along the lines of make them pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars, make them work for three years, and after three years they can get in the back of the line for a green card and then eventually become citizens. — John McCain

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it. — Vincent De Paul

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. — Claude Bernard

Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work. — Napoleon Hill