Griesemers Mill Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action. — Nikos Kazantzakis

In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim. — Xela Ffonrims

Once, when I was about ten, we were approaching the ranch after veering north to look at some pasturage when we saw a small barefoot boy racing along the hot road with terror in his face. My father just managed to stop him. Though incoherent with fear, the boy managed to inform us that his little brother had just drowned in the horse trough. My father grabbed the boy and we went racing up to the farmhouse, where the anguished mother, the drowned child in her arms, was sobbing, crying out in German, and rocking in a rocking chair. Fortunately the boy was not quite dead. My father managed to get him away from his mother long enough to stretch him out on the porch and squeeze the water out of him. In a while the boy began to belch dirty fluids and then to breathe again. The crisis past, we went on home. The graceful German mother brought my father jars of her best sauerkraut for many, many years. — Larry McMurtry

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal. — Charles Koch

Wimbledon, for me, is the most important tournament of the year, so you know there's always going to be people expecting me to do well. — Andy Murray

The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding ... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future. — H.G.Wells

On a wrong road, inconsistency is inevitable; if it were not so, mankind would be sacrificed. A false principle never has been, and never will be, carried out to the end. — Frederic Bastiat

The mightiest flame of fire lies positive mindset. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bite me. -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books. — J.D. Robb

Rorshach's journal. October 16, 1985. Been waiting in Moloch's fridge for three hours. Ate two raw eggs and packet of honey mustard sauce. Just realized I am sitting on baking soda. Freezing ass off. Really have to take leak. — Alan Moore

Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time. — Derek Luke

Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed. — Tanya Masse

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? — John Heywood

Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms. — H.P. Lovecraft