Buell Quotes

#1. They're just memories now," Chase Buell said sadly. "Time to write them off.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. but truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured, and the violence of love, Alma thought, was sometimes the most pitiless violence of all. Her

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

Khalil Gibran

#4. A joyful life isn't about others; it's about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

Martha Beck

#5. A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems

William Buell Sprague

#6. Humility fears not humiliation.

John Spencer Yantiss

#7. The truth is there ain't no relationship in the world that doesn't hit turbulence.

Junot Diaz

#8. Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Laurence J. Peter

#9. Our tongues meet, probing, exploring, welcoming, and everything else fades into the background. All the secrets and lies. All my worries and concerns. When we're together like this, I have all the proof I need to know this is what's right for me. He's right for me.

Siobhan Davis

#10. Is there a God? Is there an afterlife? ... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there.

Ryan Buell

#11. I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)

Frans De Waal

#12. Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things.

Debasish Mridha

#13. She laughs. "Except you, Lara Jean. You're still itty-bitty pocket-sized." She says it sweetly. Like sweetened condensed milk. Sweet and condescending. Poured on super thick. I

Jenny Han

#14. So most skeptics who criticize us are really just misinformed and kind of ignorant. They're just assuming something about us. We're quite critical ourselves, but we're here to help people.

Ryan Buell

#15. I could see everything she said as if it were a wall painting inside the cave of my own skull.

Jack Gantos

#16. If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps we should then bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new, something unknown, has entered us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#17. How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way?

Ryan Buell

#18. I worked on a case in Pittsburgh that you would call a demonic haunting. Blood would materialize on the walls, crosses were bending, we'd hear sounds. Just crazy things.

Ryan Buell

#19. Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are likely to continue for generations after one is gone.

Frederick Buell

#20. Oh let the lemons lie there,
upended yellow boats, their empty inboards
so clean and white, let them always ferry
such distractions from ourselves.

Michael J. Rosen

#21. 'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its un-Earthly vistas are spectral and spectacular.

Richard Corliss

#22. Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

Terry Pratchett

#23. If someone says there's a portal to hell under some rocks, you bet your ass I'm going to move them.

Ryan Buell