Cudgeling Quotes & Sayings

And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity - it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream. — Jim Clifton

He lay down on his pallet and drew the fawn down beside him. He often lay so with it in the shed, or under the live oaks in the heat of the day. He lay with his head against its side. its ribs lifted and fell with its breathing. It rested its chin on his hand. It had a few short hairs there that prickled him. He had been cudgeling his wits for an excuse to bring the fawn inside at night to sleep with him, and now he had one that could not be disputed. He would smuggle it in and out as long as possible, in the name of peace. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

By the nineteenth century, society had given up burning witches. Yet the sexual exploitation of children continued. In late-nineteenth-century Britain, for example, men who raped young girls were excused because they did it to cure venereal disease. There was a widely held belief that children would take "poisons" out of the body. In fact, leprosy, venereal disease, depression, and impotence were part of a wide range of maladies believed cured by having sex with the young. An English medical text of the time reads, "Breaking a maiden's seal is one of the best antidotes for one's ills. Cudgeling her unceasingly, until she swoons away, is a mighty remedy for man's depression. It cures all impotence. — Patrick J. Carnes

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life. — Nhat Hanh

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel. — Jill Lepore

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue. — Confucius

If we indeed possess light we shall never be afraid to go and face darkness anywhere, any-time. — Sunday Adelaja

When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It's for the best and healing starts with acceptance. — Yasmin Mogahed

Jesus Christ did not come into this world to make bad people good but to make spiritually dead people alive. Apostolics — D.G. Hanscomb

Be like a duck . . . keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. - Unknown — Jolene Brackey

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. — Epictetus

I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty in Pink,' I don't care. — Norman Reedus

I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity. — Edgar Allan Poe

Sacred life;to sing,to praise, to worship, to pray, to study the Bible,to be grateful,to read,to write and to be kind to others. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there. — Knut Hamsun

The souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life. — Brian Rathbone

I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions. — Walt Disney