Dachshund Tumblr Quotes & Sayings

All Newfoundlander men can knit. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

This theory rapidly became an article of faith because it appealed to the factors that, according to John Kenneth Galbraith, most contribute to the formation of conventional wisdom: the ease with which an idea may be understood and the degree to which it affects our personal well-being. — Steven D. Levitt

And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone. — John Irving

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail. — Samuel Chase

He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now. It struck him as strange and grotesque, that he should have stopped at the same spot as before, as though he actually imagined he could think the same thoughts, be interested in the same theories and pictures that had interested him ... so short a time ago. He felt it almost amusing, and yet it wrung his heart. ...It seemed to him, he had cut himself off from everyone and from everything at that moment. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction. — Nicholas G. Carr

Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language. — Chris Hedges

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog. — Robert Falcon Scott

Echo placed the expertly folded blanket back on the couch and smoothed it several times, insisting on finding perfection in a world where none existed. — Katie McGarry

(Seriously, how do you corner somebody when you're an ant, and how would you ... never mind.) Zeus — Rick Riordan

Dinah could spend the rest of her life living by her word, giving everyone a fair shake, and all of that. Rufus would no doubt approve of all those things. But it was not the charge he had given her. He had told her, though not in so many words, to get busy building a future. — Neal Stephenson

If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside. — Ingrid Betancourt

Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important — Pedro Juan Gutierrez

Were all trying to find meaning to make sense of our realities; in search of happiness within,
Without realising our happiness within; is the only reality that gives life a meaning. — Nikki Rowe