Cruising 1980 Quotes

#1. We always want to fix things for the people who matter. Can't, mostly, but we want to.

Eileen Wilks

#2. As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.

J.D. Brewer

#3. Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#4. Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Landor

#5. I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine ...

Elizabeth Gaskell

#6. Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

Stephen Baldwin

#7. Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through aether, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.

Ann Radcliffe

#9. To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Peter McWilliams

#10. both had strawberry blonde hair, fair skin and long legs, their personalities were night and day.

Allison Goh

#11. Do you prefer him or her? Either one's cool-I'm genderfluid.

Mvxx. Amillivn

#12. That's where God watches us from: from a distance.

Chris Crutcher

#13. Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

Wallace Stegner