Dignitary Torts Quotes & Sayings

If you are a person who can not bear reproof, your only choice is to never to anything wrong. — Unknown

The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken ... Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics - Loyalty being the other. — Inazo Nitobe

There are times in your life when things line up and Fate takes a hand in your future," Ptolemy remembered Coydog saying. "When that happens, you got to move quick and take advantage of the sitchiation or you'll never know what might have been."
"How do I know when it's time to move quick?" L'il Pea asked.
"When somethin' big happens and then somethin' else come up. — Walter Mosley

...a boy learns better what he teaches himself.... — Christopher Milne

At the top of the hill stood a cross and a little below at the bottom was a stone tomb. In my dream, just as Christian came up to the cross his burden loosened from his shoulders and fell off his back. It tumbled and continued to do so down the hill until it came to the mouth of the tomb where it fell inside and was seen no more. Christian was so glad and overjoyed and in his excitement he said, He has given me rest by his sorrow and life by his death. — John Bunyan

Broiling Sunday afternoons in what I still call Joe Robbie Stadium. — Paul Levine

So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories."
"One could say that of all stories, younger brother. — G. Willow Wilson

Once you have her in your care, that means the two of us are officially done with our bit for God and country. For this assignment, anyway. It will be all up to you to keep the pretty lady safe," Shorty replied with a grin. "If she isn't the death of you first," the tall one snickered. — A.M. Cosgrove

Perfection isn't necessary for success, but determination is. — Jeanette Coron

Ten snorted. "Like I want to hold your damn kid."
"Hey!" I spun to deliver him a nasty glare. "Watch your mouth around my daughter, fuck face. — Linda Kage

It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus; All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. Then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns and also he got a race car. Is any of this getting through to you? — Billy West

You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night. — James Thurber

It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night. — Scott Michael Foster