Foothold Traps Quotes & Sayings

The laws evolved by one particular species, for the convenience of that species, are, by their nature, concerned only with the capacities of that species - against a species with different capacities they simply become inapplicable. — John Wyndham

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life! — John Irving

Always humble yourself lovingly before God and man, because God speaks to those who are truly humble of heart, and enriches them with His gifts. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

The people who are rebelling meaningfully don't buy a lot of stuff. — David Foster Wallace

There are those who believe knowledge is something that is acquired - a precious ore hacked, as it were, from the grey strata of ignorance.
There are those who believe that knowledge can only be recalled, that there was some Golden Age in the distant past when everything was known and the stones fitted together so you could hardly put a knife between them, you know, and it's obvious they had flying machines, right, because of the way the earthworks can only be seen from above, yeah? and there's this museum I read about where they found a pocket calculator under the altar of this ancient temple, you know what I'm saying? but the government hushed it up ...
Mustrum Ridcully believed that knowledge could be acquired by shouting at people, and was endeavouring to do so. — Terry Pratchett

I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been ... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible. — Dorothy Allison

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best. — Henry Ford

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. — Max Beerbohm

Friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships. — John Irving

People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did. — Kapil Dev

When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us. — Akshay Vasu

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it. — William Hazlitt

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. — Richard Branson