Senectus Exhaustion Quotes

#1. [The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Bruce Springsteen

#3. In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#4. I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power of that music still, to this day, bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. You don't have to think about it; it's something that you feel.

John Stamos

#5. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Harper Lee

#6. Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

Mason Cooley

#7. The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better
it is just turning around as usual.

Finley Peter Dunne

#8. An apology is supposed to be a communion - a coming together. For someone to make an apology, someone has to be listening. They listen and you speak and there's an exchange. That's why we have a thing about accepting apologies.

Jon Ronson

#9. She's a few dances short of a full card.

Mary Matthews

#10. He establishes every purpose by counsel (Prov. 20:18). God, indeed, uses carnal men to very good service, but without a thorough altering and conviction of their judgment. He works by them, but not in them. Therefore they do neither approve the good they do nor hate the evil they abstain from.

Richard Sibbes