1872 Mining Quotes & Sayings

There's no way to explain how two people, or an animal and a person, connect. I guess it's just like when you fall in love. You don't choose the person you fall in love with. It just happens. — Juliana Haygert

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. — Arthur Young

Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love. — Eric Kandel

I won't stop caring about the world; even if it looks stupid. — M.F. Moonzajer

The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club. — Jim Gaffigan

Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing! — Sadegh Hedayat

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. — Thomas Jefferson

The very thought of him coming so close to tasting you makes me want to split his head in two. — Kenya Wright

As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the Gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life. — James Freeman Clarke

Demons, werewolves, zombies
they're all supposed to be for entertainment purposes only. — Jen Naumann

Can you not see, [ ... ] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is-what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problem of the modern novel is-what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos. — G.K. Chesterton

KING RICHARD III:
I am in
So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin. — William Shakespeare

Philosophy is the architectonic art and the philosopher the archetypal person — Richard H. Popkin

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed ... — Richard M. Nixon