Downsiders Talon Quotes

#1. She'd discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from hard work.

V.S. Kemanis

#2. Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward. A good man will endure all things to honor Christ.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#3. For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

Nicholas Culpeper

#4. How does it happen that in life as in literature, rebellion, however pure, has something false about it, whereas resignation, however tainted with listlessness, always gives the impression of authenticity

Emil Cioran

#5. Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

Craig Ferguson

#6. Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. There is no medicine to cure a fool!

Bhartrhari

#8. There were time to drool over a sexy wolf.
Sitting in the middle of a war room disguised as a board meeting was not one of those times.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#9. Don't wait to be compelled to do great work.

Richie Norton

#10. Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Jane Austen

#11. Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'

Jennifer Damiano

#12. The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#13. I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism.

Marian Keyes

#14. Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them ...

Jonathan Safran Foer