Cxliii Roman Quotes & Sayings

swimming the Djel was as feasible as nailing fog to the wall. He — Terry Pratchett

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance. — Philander Chase Johnson

An attitude will give you heft. — Carl Reiner

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life. — Anthony Edwards

Your mission: May you continue to shine no matter the storms you have been through. — Karen Salmansohn

Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen. — David Seabury

Every death of those you love is the death also of so many shared memories and understanding, of a now irretrievable part of your own life. — Richard Flanagan

If he was dead, well, that was interesting, too. — Kate DiCamillo

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues. — Huston Smith

The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.' — Danny Masterson

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other. — Millard Fillmore

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries? — Joseph Addison

Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired. — Jodi Kantor

There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore. — F Scott Fitzgerald