Slantways Quotes

#1. That's the only way to look at things, I always say," propounded the Duke. "Slantways, sideways, and upside down.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. Oh give us a grim Tuesday of December, with the hardwind taking schleps at our heads, and the rain coming slantways off that hideous fucking ocean, and the grapes nearly frozen off us, and dirty ice caked up top of the puddles, and we are not happy, exactly, but satisfied in our despair.

Kevin Barry

#3. All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

Morihei Ueshiba

#4. Don't be polite.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
You do not need a knife or fork or spoon.
For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.

Eve Merriam

#5. The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. It will not endure. But for the time it lasts it comes to heal. For true perception is a remedy with many names. Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one.

Foundation For Inner Peace

#6. Every man has within himself the entire human condition.

David Shields

#7. Do you understand how rare it is to get a real chance to save someone?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#8. Treatment is the way to go. It can work if you have the right model.

Joe Williams

#9. So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#10. I sometimes feel that I'd like to talk about it. Then I find it's better if I don't.

Noel Streatfeild

#11. You go for an audition, and you meet a director, and you find that they don't want you. You have to have a pull with them: that they understand what you want to bring to it. That you don't want to be the pretty little thing.

Neve McIntosh

#12. Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

Bill Mollison

#13. Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

#14. Truth with love is a lie

Fyodor Dostoyevsky