Bullfrogs Butterflies Quotes & Sayings

But this time, no. She would not let her rage overcome her. Neither her despair. She would not meet violence with violence. She believed in the transcendent power of love, the overwhelming force of nonviolence, and it was love that had saved her long ago when the anger had burned her to nothing. Love that showed her another person to be, love that taught her how to recognize the rage and not be consumed by it. — Sunil Yapa

The audio system piped Civil War-era piano into the examining room, lending the lab a strangely dichotomous feel of the modern twenty-first century medical facility and the late nineteenth century, when you poured whiskey over a bullet wound and hoped for the best. He could picture himself in a saloon after the end of the Civil War at the same time as he stood in the white and stainless steel lab. — Nina Post

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself. — Bertrand Russell

Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact. — C. D. Broad

When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride. — Ned Overend

We'll never again be the boys we once were, Tomas. But we've become so much more than we dreamed. — Raymond E. Feist

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. — Michael Mandelbaum

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention. — Mary Stuart Masterson

The task of science is investigation pure and simple," he said quietly. "Not to try to prove this or that." He — Thor Heyerdahl

As the United States begins a new chapter in our relationship with Cuba, we hope it will create an environment that improves the lives of the Cuban people, not because it is imposed by us, the United States, but through the talent and ingenuity and aspirations, and the conversations among Cubans from all walks of life so they can decide what the best course is for their prosperity. — Barack Obama

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. — Cyril Connolly

Language changes over time. Meaning twists. Mistakes compound with each transcribing. Even those stalwart sentinels of perfection - numbers - can, in a single careless moment, be profoundly altered. — Steven Erikson

I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot. — Tony Harrison

Out here the wild things are healthy, the old trees whose roots find sustenance far below the ill-used layer of topsoil, the occasional rosebush gone to green thicket and thorns, the unstoppable kudzu. It is as if they have decided to take back the land for their own. — Poppy Z. Brite

I know it is strange to feel an emotional connection to a garment, but strange seems to summarize my thinking process in general. — Katie Kacvinsky