Black Tar Road Quotes & Sayings

A new year reminds us that regardless of how often we fail or miss the mark, God freely offers opportunity to begin anew. — James Robison

It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious. — Groucho Marx

Thought all the wilderness of America was in the West till the Ghost of the Susquehanna showed me different. No, there is a wilderness in the East; it's the same wilderness Ben Franklin plodded in the oxcart days when he was postmaster, the same as it was when George Washington was a wildbuck Indian-fighter, when Daniel Boone told stories by Pennsylvania lamps and promised to find the Gap, when Bradford built his road and men whooped her up in log cabins. There were not great Arizona spaces for the little man, just the bushy wilderness of eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, the backroads, the black-tar roads that curve among the mournful rivers like Susquehanna, Monongahela, old Potomac and Monocacy. — Jack Kerouac

A lie is an excuse guarded — Jonathan Swift

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Yep," I said proudly, and kind of sniffed like Barney Fife when he was allowed to load his pistol. — Ronnie Ray Jenkins

He wanted to hear Mhisery scream, he wanted to know she was forgetting everything that was going on except what was happening between the two of them. He wanted her to release the guilt she felt about her daddy and what she should or shouldn't be doing. He just wanted her to let it all go and just be with him in the moment. — Shyloh Morgan

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. — Mark Twain

The Word of God is our measuring stick against all deception. — Brian Reynolds

Memories trickled through the pain as Onyx's eyes travelled down the tar road he knelt on. Its black, sour surface melted into the erratic horizon. — Ronel Van Tonder

There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity. — Joel Hunter

I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening. — Ian Darke

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow. — Victor J. Banis

Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine. — Rachel Brosnahan

Fukuyama's thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of the cultural unconscious. It should be remembered, though, that even when Fukuyama advanced it, the idea that history had reached a 'terminal beach' was not merely triumphalist. Fukuyama warned that his radiant city would be haunted, but he thought its specters would be Nietzschean rather than Marxian. Some of Nietzsche's most prescient pages are those in which he describes the 'oversaturation of an age with history'. 'It leads an age into a dangerous mood of irony in regard to itself', he wrote in Untimely Meditations, 'and subsequently into the even more dangerous mood of cynicism', in which 'cosmopolitan fingering', a detached spectatorialism, replaces engagement and involvement. This is the condition of Nietzsche's Last Man, who has seen everything, but is decadently enfeebled precisely by this excess of (self) awareness. — Mark Fisher