Foin Quotes & Sayings

Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end. — William Hare

You've probably met moms like that. You say, "Yeah, I scored a goal in the soccer game last night." And she says, "Oh, that's nice. All fourteen of my children are the captains of their teams, and they make straight A's and can play the violin." And you just want to smack her. — Rick Riordan

The Ayurvedic route to great health involves two simple steps:
1. Doing less;
2. Being more. — Shubhra Krishan

When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life. — Marty Rubin

Swinging the spatula, he smacks Leo in the head, the loud thwack echoing though the kitchen. "Shit!" Leo winces, "What the hell was that for?"
"The table isn't set," Lorenzo says. "What are we, animals?"? — J.M. Darhower

I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human and so you didn't respect their desire to be connected to a family and a place. That was the only way you could tolerate and make sense of lynching and the terror that lynching represented. — Bryan Stevenson

I hate, for example, people who sit with their legs splayed. People who claim to give 110 percent. People who call themselves "comfortable" when what they mean is decadently rich. — Jenny Offill

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it. — Haruki Murakami

Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies. — Muriel Barbery

I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away. — Jim Butcher

I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills ... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. loin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where. — George Washington

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness — Viktor Korchnoi

In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across. — Claire Tomalin

Happiness is a piece of fudge caught on the first bounce. — Charles M. Schulz

A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations. — Zicheng Hong

36 Behold, I am Moroni, your chief captain. I aseek not for power, but to pull it down. I bseek not for honor of the world, but for the glory of my God, and the freedom and welfare of my country. And thus I close mine epistle. — The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints