Dimitris Contoocook Quotes & Sayings

Then he jumped. The head was lying a little clear of the water jar, under the curve of it; and, as his teeth met, Rikki braced his back against the bulge of the red earthenware to hold down the head. — Rudyard Kipling

With their whips of flames they smote asunder the webs of Ungoliant. - The Silmarillion — J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away. — Megan Whalen Turner

The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations. — Charles Stanley

each person fulfills his or her own destiny - whether it be good or bad - in his or her own time and unique way. — Charles Rubin

The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people below them. A lot of people do not have relationships horizontally. And there's a lot of people who reach high political offices, but who are weirdly lonely, weirdly lacking in intimacy skills. — Mark Shields

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. — Charles Dudley Warner

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. — Agnes Repplier

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct — Aldo Leopold

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a certain sense, it is certainly only "by suffering" that a man knows. If compassion is not itself clear, abstractly conceivable or visibly symbolic knowledge, it is, at any rate, the strongest impulse for the acquisition of knowledge. It is only by suffering that the genius understands men. And the genius suffers most because he suffers with and in each and all; but he suffers most through his understanding ... — Otto Weininger

It is wise to know God. — Lailah Gifty Akita