Sweet Hereafter Quotes

#1. Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It longs for something better, and finds it, I guess, as much as anything is ever found anymore. It's a mean, sweet, wry, and disturbing book, in equal portions.

Frederick Barthelme

#2. But I understood Bear Otto's desire to become a noble man, a man like Billy Ansel, and I respected that, naturally. I just wished the boy had more ways of imagining the thing than by becoming a good soldier. But that's boys, I guess.

Russell Banks

#3. When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

Jane Porter

#4. The only way I could go on living was to believe I was not living.

Russell Banks

#5. Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles ... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind?

Frank Laubach

#6. For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem.

Russell Banks

#7. The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.

Marshall McLuhan

#8. I had to break up with my last girlfriend for lying about being raped by her neighbor. But I've met her neighbor, he's a cool guy. Not like her other creepy ass neighbor though ...

Anthony Jeselnik

#9. Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Eddie Cantor

#10. I'm the kind of person who always follows the manual. No shortcuts.

Russell Banks

#11. Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks that other people have none either is the secret of the failure that lies in wait for him somewhere on the way of Life.

Oscar Wilde

#12. I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

Jerry Coleman

#13. Have you ever been kissed by a superhero before? Because you've never been truly kissed until you've been kissed by a superhero."
"Will it be life-changing?"
"Oh yes, life as you know it will never be the same.

Beth Michele

#14. Obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. I'm an optimist, basically, who acts like a pessimist. On principle. Just in case.

Russell Banks

#15. Because it's anger that drives us and delivers us. It's not any kind of love either-love for the underdog or the victim, or whatever you want to call them. Some litigators like to claim that. The losers.

Russell Banks

#16. I really don't like drunk women; I think it is such a bad look. I think it's very inappropriate and I don't like it. I don't really have drunk friends.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#17. Listen, identify withe the victims and you become one yourself. Victims make lousy litigators.

Russell Banks

#18. Photographs of them alive and smiling would have made me cry and fall down and beat the earth with my fists; their actual dead faces only sealed me off from myself.

Russell Banks

#19. Fixing motives is like fixing blame-the further away from the act you get, the harder it is to single out one thing as having caused it.

Russell Banks

#20. I kept driving straight on toward what we called home and could not say aloud the words that were thrashing me, as if somehow by remaining silent I could keep the terrible thing from having occurred.

Russell Banks

#21. O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

George Arnold

#22. Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.

H.L. Mencken

#23. [ ... ] I could no longer believe even in life. Which meant that I had come to be the reverse, the opposite of a Christian. For me, now, the only reality is death.

Russell Banks

#24. Mourning can be very selfish. When someone you love has died, you tend to recall best those few moments and incidents that helped clarify your sense, not of the person who has died, but of your own self.

Russell Banks

#25. There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. Angry? Yes, I'm angry: I'd be a lousy lawyer if I weren't.

Russell Banks

#27. Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Robert Hughes

#28. It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand.

Russell Banks

#29. From then on, we were simply different people. Not new people; different.

Russell Banks

#30. Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

Lorne Michaels

#31. It's a landscape that controls you, sits you down and says, Shut up, pal, I'm in charge here.

Russell Banks