Catenon Quotes & Sayings

Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. — William Shakespeare

When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth," he was not merely being aspirational; at the onset of the Civil War, the United States of America had one of the highest rates of suffrage in the world. The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant "government of the people" but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term "people" to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. Thus America's problem is not its betrayal of "government of the people," but the means by which "the people" acquired their names. This — Ta-Nehisi Coates

All around us, Karachi kept moving — Kamila Shamsie

Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible. — Miranda Lambert

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters. — Anne Frank

My brain was like mud. — Amy Street

feels productive might not be. You might spend a good deal of time designing a monster or a scene or an encounter area only to have it fall apart when your players come to the table. Sometimes all the preparation in the world won't result in a better game for your group. As an example, according to Michael Mallen, writer of the Id DM blog, the worst session he ever ran was the one for which he felt most prepared — Michael Shea

One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about. — Omar Ahmad

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes. — Ada Cambridge

Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother. — Ingmar Bergman

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels. — Alan Hansen