1221 Quotes

#1. The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.

David Bentley

#2. I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

Jane Smiley

#3. The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the "war" against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. A thoughtful pause and then: 'Maybe to make it easy to find, but look like it's hard to find, so you'd find it but think it wasn't meant to be found, even though you only really found it because someone wanted it to be found?' Logan

Stuart MacBride

#5. I'm sorry for Cathleen. She can be ... difficult.
Two-year-olds were difficult. That woman was a terrorist.

Jenny B. Jones

#6. It's nice, but it's also getting to the point where if they keep swooning into each other's eyes, we're all going to drown in their saccharine sweetness as rainbows fly out their butts.

T.J. Klune

#7. So what, you her daddy or something?" the little goon laughs at Tank. Tank steps around me right up to the guy. Tank's got a good eighty pounds and nine inches on him. The little goon looks even smaller standing by Tank. "Only when I'm fuckin' her," Tank retorts with a satisfied smile.

Jaci J.

#8. You know, Tess, I could kiss you right now.

Embee

#9. After all these years, the heaviest thing isn't the number on the scale but the weight of the shame I've carried all these years
too big, too big, too big.

Shauna Niequist

#10. Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

Giovanni Papini

#11. He just clamps his lips over mine and sticks his tongue so far into my mouth I feel like I'm being examined by the ENT gynae

Poppet

#12. Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

Jeffrey Deitch

#13. point is, he wants to hurt you, doc, and he's already trying hard. one way or another he's going to screw you, if he can."
"he can wait in line with all the other people who want to.

Patricia Cornwell

#14. A small part of me was glad. There's always relief in giving up.

Lauren Oliver

#15. The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

Linton Kwesi Johnson