Butcherbox Quotes & Sayings

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe. — Sydney Smith

Most people recognize that many blue-collar jobs pay more than white-collar jobs. Few act on that recognition. — Venkatesh G. Rao

There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty- in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub-our immediate duty is to stop it. — E. M. Forster

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon — Oscar Wilde

All they did was stir up desire, and longing, and hopelessness, a trio of miserable caged wildcats that had been installed in me without my permission, or at least without my understanding how long they would live and how vicious they would be. — Alice Munro

It's only thunder."
"It just startled me," she said, her eyes on his. "I'm not afraid of storms.'
"Let's see."
Still, he moved slowly, taking his time as much to prolong this new moment as to gauge her reaction. He laid his hands on her hips as the rain beat and splashed, sliding them up her body, smooth and easy as he lowered his head, paused-one long breath-then fit his mouth to hers. — Nora Roberts

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old. — Marlee Matlin

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper. — Michael K. Williams

Believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and worshipping him is a still greater danger ... The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of scripture is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissable. — C.S. Lewis

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy. — Jerry Moran

Instantly I remembered everything I hated about him. But it was, in a way, comforting to know that he had not changed at all. — Olivia Sudjic

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave. — Fulton J. Sheen

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels. — W. H. Auden

Too often, people hear the word "theory" and they think it to mean "an idea which has not been proven." They will tell you that a theory is the opposite of a "fact." But it is more accurate to say that a theory is an idea which has not been disproven, and a fact (in the historical sense) is just a theory that most everybody agrees with. — Simon Trinculo