Esquimauxsledges Quotes & Sayings

Cornelius Tacitus when he says, that men are readier to pay back injuries than benefits, since to requite a benefit is felt to be a burthen, to return an injury a gain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. — Charles Dickens

between Scylla and Charybdis, — Alison Weir

Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience. — Cynthia Daignault

We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity. — Bryant McGill

she wasn't exactly hard to miss. — J.K. Rowling

Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians stand by ready with cameras and notebooks to make sure every novel detail is safe for the record. The tradition of the new has reduced all other traditions to triviality ... — Harold Rosenberg

It's the best fifth place I've ever had. — Libby Trickett

O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always. — Thomas Hardy

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US ... — Robin Cook

Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the Esquimauxsledges are drawn by dogs, and in the twilight of the northern night the hunter does not give over to follow the seal and walrus on the ice. They are of sick and diseased imaginations who would toll the world's knell so soon. Cannot these sedentary sects do better than prepare the shrouds and write the epitaphs of those other busy living men? The practical faith of all men belies the preacher's consolation. — Henry David Thoreau

Her name was Mora ... and she was waiting. — M.L. LeGette

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life. — Denzel Washington

I am waiting to plunge down, to shatter and crash, roar and boom, to bury your trail, and close forever the outlet to Deception Pass! — Zane Grey

It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing that's putting someone down. I mean the kind of laughing that means you've just discovered something really beautiful. — Benjamin Alire Saenz