Left Hanging famous quotes

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know themselves to be revealing. We all do that.

It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and dead matter; between moving bodies and bodies at rest. This is a primitive point of view. What seems dead, a stone or the proverbial "door-nail," say, is actually forever in motion. We have merely become accustomed to judge by outward appearances; by the deceptive impressions we get through our senses.

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure.

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.

We experience a body experiencing an outer world. But really, the experience of the outer world, as well as the experience of the body, are not happening in two different places.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.