Zloaf Quotes & Sayings

The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his goatee, white as the dogwood blossom, a badge of unimpeachable credibility in Confucian eyes. Inscrutable because he had gone to his grave without divulging the Secret of the Eleven Herbs and Spices. — Neal Stephenson

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree. — A.C. Grayling

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school! — Maxine Kumin

SOME Christians are sadly prone to look on the dark side of everything, and to dwell more upon what they have gone through than upon what God has done for them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music. — Ziggy Marley

If you have seen darkness, you will appreciate the dawn of light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My God. You have the heart of a capo, do you know that? You could have brought Sicily to its knees. No don would stand against you. — C.D. Reiss

I'm not at a place in my life where I can be in a relationship."
Her smile grew troubled. "A place in your life? What does that mean? Our relationships are all that life is about. — Josh Lanyon

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. — John Quincy Adams

Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others. — Pope Francis

To commit to the present moment is to accept our inability to control the future and accept that many of our fears and reactions are just what they are, thoughts and emotions that are irrationally internalized. We will never be completely void of the temptations to look into the future when we are in the present; however, one must come to the understanding that by looking too far off into the future, we taint the future by creating an artificial expectation of what the future should hold, and are emotionally drained when it holds something else. Focus on the present, and you will come to have more control over the future naturally. — Forrest Curran

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time — Franklin P. Adams

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.' — Robert Teeter

Come the rains and the beerbahutis appeared all over the green. From where do they emerge, so perfect in shape and colour, and where do they go? — Qurratulain Hyder

I have a business to run and stockholders to think about. — Jerry Yang