Clawed Toes Quotes & Sayings

I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost. — Vanessa Kerry

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down. — William Matthews

What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been. — Emily Dickinson

He truth is, we made each other, like we learned about in science class. Symbiosis. — Abigail Haas

Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies. — George Eliot

As far as I know, scientists have yet to discover the proper reaction to I'm sorry. — Robyn Schneider

There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like. — George W. Bush

A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar. — L. S. Lowry

Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time. — Anthony Goldbloom

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness. — Greg Wise