Xcode Escape Quotes & Sayings

I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly. — Patricia Briggs

The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We calmly, we carelessly assume that our minds are identical with that of the writer, at least on that point; and then we wonder that there should be misunderstandings!
The fact is (again!) that usually we don't really want to know; it is so very much easier to drift down the river of discourse, "lazily, lazily, drowsily, drowsily, In the noonday sun."
Why is this so satisfactory? Because although we may not know what a word means, most words have a pleasant or unpleasant connotation, each for himself, either because of the ideas or images thus begotten, of hopes or memories stirred up, or merely for the sound of the word itself. — Aleister Crowley

He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant. — Laini Taylor

I am not one of your repentant sinners, Kenneth. I have lived my life - God, what a life! - and as I have lived I shall die, unflinching and unchanged. Dare one to presume that a few hours spent in whining prayers shall atone for years of reckless dissoluteness? 'Tis a doctrine of cravens, who, having lacked in life the strength to live as conscience bade them, lack in death the courage to stand by that life's deeds. I am no such traitor to myself. — Rafael Sabatini

It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart ... so it can be a lovely, merciful thing to think, 'Actually, there is no path I can take without having my heart broken, so why not get on with it and stop wanting these extra-special circumstances which stop me from doing something courageous?' — David Whyte

I hate to go mincing through life, afraid to take a single long step for fear somebody is watching. I want to "wave my wild tail and walk by my wild lone." There wasn't a bit of real harm in my opening that window and talking to Perry. There wasn't even any harm in his trying to kiss me. He just did it to tease me. Oh, I hate conventions. As you say, hang consequences.'
'But we can't hang 'em, Pussy - that's just the trouble. They're more likely to hang us. — L.M. Montgomery

We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad! — Stephen Malkmus

A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I feel sick and disempowered, betrayed, angry and crushed by the corruption of all that I know is right. — Chris Packham

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. — Ciaran Hinds

In a civilization devoted to the strictly abstract and mathematical ideal of making the most money in the least time, the only sure method of success is to cheat the customer, to sell various kinds of nothingness in pretentious packages. — Alan W. Watts

I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus. — Anne Lamott

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement. — Idries Shah

And I'll try to make the parts that I find, happy. Because you make me happy. So much. — Pleasefindthis

When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained. — Viggo Mortensen