1885 High Wall Quotes & Sayings

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words. — Bruce Lee

It seemed to Bosch to be a form of torture heaped upon torture. Corazon was hunched over the steel table, her bloody and gloved hands deep inside the gutted torso, working with forceps and a long-bladed instrument she called the "butter knife." Corazon was not tall and she stood on her tiptoes to be able to reach down and in with her tools. She braced her hip against the side of the autopsy table to gain leverage. — Michael Connelly

Of course you had to pick the dive-y-est dive bar this side of Market. I think that door handle just gave me a venereal disease. — Laura Oliva

Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth will return at each crossroad in life because it secretly seeks to provoke a deep awakening to the unique way that we are intended to live. — Michael Meade

Maybe you should accept the fact that you've tried to be someone you're not for so long that no matter what you did, those bastards were never happy. They were never satisfied. They never gave a damn, did they? — Tahereh Mafi

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. — William Penn

People will be much more likely to help you if they can see you're trying to help yourself. — Matt Wynne

The items in our homes that we feel we absolutely "need" are downright extravagances within the global landscape. — Tsh Oxenreider

Strength, like height, is measured by who you're standin next to! — Leslie Feinberg

One mistake is enough for all your life. So, where is the place of a mischief-maker? — Behnam Rajabpoor

The only real heroism is survival, to win the prize that is your own life. — Atef Abu Saif

Don't talk to strangers? Well, I figure he will always be a stranger unless I speak to him. Where is the logic in such a rule? — Penelope Fletcher

Aristotle had thought that atomism was wrong, and he rejected the views of the ancient Greek atomist Democritus. (The other atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius, lived after Aristotle.) But Boyle thought that Aristotle was wrong, and so he rejected the alchemists' belief (based on Aristotle) that fire, earth, air, and water were the fundamental elements, and Aristotle's belief that each thing had a definite form. Instead, Boyle believed that everything was made of atoms - including fire, earth, air, and water - and that a thing's "form" was merely the result of how the atoms were put together. What — Benjamin Wiker