Yammering Synonym Quotes & Sayings

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins. — Salman Rushdie

The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age. — Richard Hofstadter

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential. — Ed Catmull

There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs. — Keith Lehrer

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. — Ellen Langer

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight. — Robert Harris

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times. — Nancy Spain

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. — Edward Dahlberg

Until you feel someone's pain then maybe you will understand his or her feelings — Myself

So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate,
Giving to death, and dying to redeem,
So dearly to redeem what hellish hate
So easily destroy'd, and still destroys,
In those who, when they may, accept not grace. — John Milton

proxy, and by this time the house is filling up at last. — Beatriz Williams

God love to be with us. We must daily seek His presence. — Lailah Gifty Akita