1647 Country Quotes & Sayings

The homelessness of nature, its utter indifference to human existence, disclose to the infinite player that nature is the genius of the dramatic. — James P. Carse

You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame. — Gaines Adams

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room. — Judith Thurman

Your burden is not to clear your conscience
But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience. — T. S. Eliot

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se? — Andrea Dworkin

In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers. — Craig Brown

Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Grant me, O Lord, to know that which ought to be known; to love that which ought to be loved; to praise that which pleaseth Thee most, to esteem that which is precious in Thy sight, to blame that which is vile in Thine eyes. Suffer me not to judge according to the sight of bodily eyes, nor to give sentence according to the hearing of the ears of ignorant men; but to discern in true judgment between visible and spiritual things, and above all things to be ever seeking after the will of Thy good pleasure. 8. — Thomas A Kempis

And stay away from bushes."
"Why?"
"Dude, this is South Africa home of the cobras. And I don't mean the hot ones like Ian. — Peter Lerangis

Do not pity the dead, Harry. — J.K. Rowling

Everything wooden swells and shrinks, and the nails in everything wooden, the floors and baseboards and window casings, the nails inch out and rust. Everywhere there are rusted nails to step on or snag your elbow on, and there's only one bathroom for the seven — Chuck Palahniuk

A leader's first priority is to create an environment where others can do these things and that cannot happen if they are not having effective meetings. — Patrick Lencioni