Calycanthus Sweetshrub Quotes & Sayings

You don't sound very patriotic," observed Tessa.
"Weren't you just reminiscing about the mountains?"
"Patriotic?" Will looked smug.
"I'll tell you what's patriotic," he said.
"In honor of my birthplace, I've the dragon of Wales tattooed on my - "
"You're in a charming temper, aren't you, William?" interrupted Jem,
though there was no edge to his voice. — Cassandra Clare

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world. — Ray Thompson

Summer grass," Jaime told his cousin. "Old Sumner Crakehall — George R R Martin

If people were silent nothing would change. — Malala Yousafzai

The grudge was fundamental. Perhaps he could not have given it up if he tried. Perhaps he got more satisfaction out of feeling himself abused that he would have got out of being loved. — Willa Cather

We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance. — Arianna Huffington

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have. — Maurice Hinchey

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time. — E.W. Howe

If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all. — Michael Totten

The components of a philosophy must stand or fall on their own internal consistency or empirical support, regardless of the founder's or followers' personality quirks or moral inconsistencies. — Michael Shermer

You shouldn't have told them you were my fiance."
"I thought if I were your fiance, they would let me see you immediately."
"It just made you sound weird. Nobody my age gets married. — Allison Van Diepen

What you call passion is not a spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater desire and ambition, but rather the misdirection of these qualities toward and isolated and false goal, with a consequent tension and sultriness in the atmosphere. Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen. In argument, for example, they will not shout or wave their arms. But, I assure you, they are nevertheless, burning with subdued fires. — Hermann Hesse

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search ... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all. — David Filo