Saul Quotes

Last guys don't finish nice.

Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.

I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.

At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

But she's a nut, and nuts win.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

I must play the instrument I've got.

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation.

this is her body this is her blood

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

We have been taught to "just eat a balanced diet." We have been taught wrong. The truth is natural healing works.

I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures.

If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.

It is a distinguishing feature of natural therapies that they are straightforward and reliable enough to safely do on your own, at home.