Lengel Washington Quotes

#1. The primordial purity of the ground completely transcends words, concepts, and formulations.

Jamgon Kongtrul

#2. Slowly and gently, Augustus Brine explained to the king of the Djinn about the illusion created by motion pictures. When he finished, he felt like he had just raped the tooth fairy in front of a class of kindergartners.

Christopher Moore

#3. Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

Paul Kingsnorth

#4. When you first approached me, all I could think was that life didn't work that way. The most beautiful boy in the universe doesn't come knocking on the grisly recluse's door. If I wrote that plot, I'd be laughed off Goodreads.

Eli Easton

#5. At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. It is a sort of sinister warning that there is some person or some thing in the Universe outside oneself: and the realisation of that is as frankly frightening as the other realisation, that one is eternally alone, is horrible.

Aleister Crowley

#7. Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.

Kevin DeYoung

#8. the best education consists not in being taught but in being inspired,

Neel Burton

#9. If a hand, a situation, a wave were ever to raise me up and carry me to where I could command power and influence, I would destroy the circumstances that had favoured me, and I would hurl myself down into the humble, speechless, insignificant darkness. I can only breathe in the lower regions.

Robert Walser

#10. When you're accustomed to doing stand-up, so often you're the only person onstage and it's all your thing. It's very gladiatorial. Obviously, when you're in a scene with somebody, you're supposed to listen and react - and that's a bit of a transition.

Jon Stewart

#11. I wasn't a hoarder, but I knew my place gave off a Feral Child Hidey Hole vibe.

Jeremy Robert Johnson