Batoche National Historic Site Quotes & Sayings

What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about. — G.K. Chesterton

live in pockets of time, refuse to walk the line — Brian P. Vadimsky

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. — Bertrand Russell

It's odd the way that things tend to stop looking like themselves when you take their motion away. — Ainslie Hogarth

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live. — Susanne Katherina Langer

A person can get ... stuck, for lack a better word, in a life. It's surprisingly easy, really. Hours bleed into days; days fade into months. Before you know it, years have passed, and you're just this person, someone your younger self wouldn't even recognize. — Kristen Callihan