Colonel Rainsborough Quotes & Sayings

His problem, is that the other side of Lindsey Graham is that he's known as sort of, I don't know, a moderate, an accommodationist. — Martin O'Malley

Still, what can thoughtful people and humanists do but struggle toward suitable words? Take me, for instance. I've been writing letters helter-skelter in all directions. More words. I go after reality with language. Perhaps I'd like to change it all into language, to force Madeline and Gersbach to have a Conscience. There's a word for you. I must be trying to keep tight the tensions without which human beings can no longer be called human. If they don't suffer, they've gotten away from me. And I've filled the world with letters to prevent their escape. I want them in human form, and so I conjure up a whole environment and catch them in the middle. I put my whole heart into these constructions. But they are constructions. — Saul Bellow

When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit onto my head. — Daphne Guinness

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains. — Jeff Garlin

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you? — Randy Alcorn

All you need to say to me
All you need to say to me
Is call (call)
And I'll be curled on the floor
Hiding out from it all
And I won't take any other call — Sara Quin

It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that. — Fritz Maytag

Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head. — Aneta Cruz

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort. — Duffy Daugherty

Once, she had taken love for granted. Never again. Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark. — Kristin Hannah

Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so. — George Eliot

A revolution does not have to eat its children. In fact, it is those who are in power who could very well initiate revolutions. Let us not be old-fashioned and think only of armed uprisings of minorities as revolutions. Any movement that seeks to overhaul established attitudes is a revolution. — F. Sionil Jose

There are a few key moments in anyone's life. A person is fortunate if he can tell in hindsight when they happened. — Randy Pausch