Eloquentia Quotes & Sayings

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important. — Roz Savage

she's teaching me to see to be blind sighted. — Peter Moore

They knew that you breathed and you slept and you worked, but they didn't know that you read. Such a thing was beyond comprehension. They thought that in your spare time you sat and gazed into space, or looked at Peg's Paper or the Crimson Circle. You could almost see them reporting you to their friends. 'Margaret's a good cook, but unfortunately she reads. Books, you know. — Margaret Powell

Sometimes a person has to let go of something to take hold of something else. — Heidi Heilig

The factory farm is ... an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous ... All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog. — Matthew Scully

New York has collapsed. — James Purdy

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities. — Adam Smith

Rumours are like sexually transmitted diseases, both are spread by whores. — Habeeb Akande

You can find trans fat in baked goods and packaged products that do not have an expiration date. — Maria Bella

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.] — Tacitus

I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage. — Craig D. Lounsbrough