Untasted Quotes

#1. Of lunacy,
Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride,
Ambition disappointed, riches lost,
And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft
By man inflicted on his brother man;
Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet
Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.

Robert Pollok

#2. Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Jacqueline Carey

#3. I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.

Jacqueline Carey

#4. But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

Wallace Shawn

#5. Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead.

Lily King

#6. Why fight the natural order of things?"
"I guess becomes some things are worth it.

Paula Stokes

#7. The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being

John Kenneth Galbraith

#8. I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

Jacqueline Carey

#9. They have no idea what's coming.

Rae Carson

#10. I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

Lena Horne

#11. To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant.

Heinrich Rohrer

#12. We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.

Richard M. Nixon

#13. Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

Bruce Willis