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Sayings Quotes (page 259)

Lionel Merble was a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. It amuses them that so many Earthlings are offended by the idea of being machines. Kurt Vonnegut
Beingless beings. Stop! Throb always without you and the throb always within. Your heart you sing of. I between them. Where? Between two roaring worlds where they swirl, I. Shatter them, one and both. But stun myself too in the blow. Shatter me you who can. Bawd and butcher, were the words. I say! Not yet awhile. A look around. James Joyce
Jerzy Kosinski quote: "That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to..."
That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw. Jerzy Kosinski
Jodi Picoult quote: "Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that..."
Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down. Jodi Picoult
Gertrude Stein quote: "So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use."
So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use. Gertrude Stein
If you love the Lord, live as if you loved him. Let us all try to do so; and let us watch that we never undo with our hands what we say with our tongues. Charles Spurgeon
I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety? Mary Shelly, "The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Haruki Murakami quote: "Like the song says, rainy days and Mondays always get ya down."
Like the song says, rainy days and Mondays always get ya down. Haruki Murakami
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I always say too much when I'm talking to you--- that's one of..."
I always say too much when I'm talking to you--- that's one of the problems....Edward CullenTwilight, Chapter 5 Stephenie Meyer
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds. Carl Sandburg
I do not wish to say that one should love death; but one should love life so magnanimously, so without calculating and selecting, that love of death (the turned-away side of life) is continually and involuntarily included - which actually happens invariably in the great motions of love, which are impetuous and illimitable. Rainer Maria Rilke
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries. R. Buckminster Fuller
In one horrible moment the last piece of the prophecy became clear. So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps, As life may be death and death life again reaps. He had to leap, and by his death, the others would live. That was it. That was what Sandwich had been trying to say all along, and by now he believed in Sandwich. He put on a final burst of speed, just like the coach taught him in track. He gave everything he had. In the last few steps before the canyon he felt a sharp pain in... Suzanne Collins
What really shapes and conditions and makes us is somebody only a few of us ever have the courage to face: and that is the child you once were, long before formal education ever got its claws into you - that impatient, all-demanding child who wants love and power and can't get enough of either and who goes on raging and weeping in your spirit till at last your eyes are closed and all the fools say, 'Doesn't he look peaceful?' It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all... Robertson Davies
One of the Franciscans says later, "A monk should own nothing but his harp"; meaning, I suppose, that he should value nothing but his song, the song with which it was his business as a minstrel to serenade every castle and cottage, the song of the joy of the Creator in His creation and the beauty of the brotherhood of men. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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