Breech Loader Fanfiction Quotes & Sayings

He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter
until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company. — Peter L. Berger

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There are plenty of atheists in foxholes. What I don't see are Christians in foxholes. If a Christian soldier takes a bullet to the knee, he will undoubtedly first call for a medic, not a priest. Reliance on god is typically only available when a problem can be ignored without discomfort or when the problem belongs to others (where it can be ignored without discomfort). When the chips are down, like when you have a serious illness or you've been shot or you're at war, even the most devout Christians rely on humans (doctors or other soldiers) even though they'll swear up and down that it's god helping them. — Sam Singleton

There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes. — Jim Rohn

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball. — Don Carter

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either. — Muhammad Ali

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them. — Kevin Powers

It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

There's no such thing as a good tax. — Winston Churchill

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life. — Saul Bellow

If we can relax when our strong emotions come, then we don't pass fear on to our children and to future generations. — Thich Nhat Hanh