Dominie Press Quotes & Sayings

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

You know sometimes when I walk into your room with a flashlight or a candle?' I nodded. 'Well, love is like that. Light doesn't have to announce it's way into a room or ask the darkness to leave. It just is. It walks ahead of you, and the darkness rolls back like a tide.' She waved her hand across the room. 'It has to 'cause darkness can't be where light is. — Charles Martin

The world is made of stairs; some go up and some go down. . . . — Wally Lamb

Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think. — Julian Assange

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism. — Marshall McLuhan

Cabinet is a conscious, explicit attempt to portray the Doctor himself as myth. "He's a mischief, a leprechaun, a boojum," says one character, bookseller and collector of incunabula, Syme. "The Doctor is a myth. He's straight out of Old English folklore, typical trickster figure really."29 Neither part of an ongoing narrative, nor specifically located within the series' past, Cabinet is in a position to challenge the portrayal of the Doctor. — Anthony Burdge, Jessica Burke, Kristine Larsen

I do not read newspaper comics unless they happen to be out when I visit my parents, but I follow several online comics, which I check every morning while I drink my coffee and wake up for the day. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man. — Jonathan Swift

This isn't a man. It's a broken kite. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents. — Elton John

That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact. — Charles Hodge

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars") — Dante Alighieri

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs. — Peter Hammill

I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some grandchildren. You can't overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think. — Helen Garner

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. — Brandon Sanderson