Flieringa Set Quotes & Sayings

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. — Ruth Rendell

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. — Christopher Lasch

It was as if the mist were none other than the frozen breath of Dr. Cain, waiting with a smile for the moment of his return. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it. — Kevin Hosey

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble. — Richard Baxter

It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound. — Paul Horn

There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?. — Joe Biden

He happy hum of humanity. — Arthur C. Clarke

Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life. — Carol Muske-Dukes

Poetry is composing for the breath. — Peter Davison

I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you. — Erin Morgenstern

He who is grateful doesn't suffer. — Gautama Buddha

I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo — Robert Solow

Shot the man! Shed human blood! Hid in a pool!" ejaculated Mr. Dove, overcome. "Really, Rachel, you are a most trying daughter. Why should you go out before daybreak and do such things? — H. Rider Haggard

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable. — Condoleezza Rice