Unsufferable Quotes

#1. Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

John Dryden

#2. It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

Martin Luther

#3. Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

Aeschylus

#4. You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.

Alex Steffen

#5. No longer does human life rise from the earth like a pyramid, broadly and considerately founded upon its own sources. Now it scatters itself out in a reckless horizontal sprawl, like a disorderly city whose suburbs and pavements destroy the fields.

Wendell Berry

#6. The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word
the note
is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.

Neal Ascherson

#7. The scene we stepped into was straight out of 50 Shades of Grey - Geriatric Edition.

R.S. Grey

#8. Every part of the system of Reiki is ultimately about meditation and compassion as keys to healing.

Kathleen Prasad

#9. A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

George S. Patton

#10. I never yell, I never tell, but I'm grateful as hell.

Benny Hill

#11. The wings of hope are strong enough to carry the weight of despair.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

James Schuyler

#13. Democratic systems based on the concept of a homogeneous nation such as England are very definitely not applicable to heterogeneous countries such as India, and this simple fact is the root cause of India's constitutional ills.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#14. There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize that Paul's apartment overlooks the park ... and is obviously more expensive than mine.

Patrick Bateman