Colibri Pens Quotes & Sayings

The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives ... Today, it is the government that is free - free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter ... that is not subject to legislation. — Harry Browne

Your number was up the first time I met you. — Stephenie Meyer

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. — Ivo Andric

The moral narcissist's extreme humility masked a dreadful pride. Ordinary people could accept that they had faults; the moral narcissist could not. — Larissa MacFarquhar

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner. — George R R Martin

But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means. — Dan Gable

He was always in a hurry to get where he was not. — Leo Tolstoy

Resolution, the ability and determination to see things through to the end. However unexpected or disappointing that end turns out to be. — Peter F. Hamilton

When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be. — Jon Katz

What exactly was Jesus' take on violent capitalism? I also have some big ideas for changing the way we think about literary morals as they pertain to legislation. Rather than suffer another attempt by the religious right to base our legalese upon the Bible, I would vote that we found it squarely upon the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien. The citizens of Middle Earth had much more tolerant policies in their governing bodies. For example, Elrond was chosen to lead the elves at Rivendell not only despite his androgynous nature but most likely because of the magical leadership inherent in a well-appointed bisexual elf wizard. That's the person you want picking shit out for your community. That's the guy you want in charge. David Bowie or a Mormon? Not a difficult equation. — Nick Offerman

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. — Georg C. Lichtenberg