Holp Quotes & Sayings

Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image. — Eva Herzigova

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics. — Bertrand Russell

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack. — Robert Jordan

I have a gift. I just know what I'm doing. — Patti Stanger

Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of their upbringing and who their family are, their own people who were close to them who fought in these wars and so on. It's complicated. But they had that ability to continue the conversation. — Anne Waldman

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

In the doggie dictionary, under "bow wow" it says, "See "arf arf."" — George Carlin

He'll need a good beating from time to time. Be careful o' his teeth, though. He bites. — George R R Martin

I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour, each day, and be alone; and read and think; and walk about the garden in the night; and wait, wait... — Rosamond Lehmann

At one stage in the history of English, the past tenses of verbs were marked by a regular vowel change process; instead of "help/helped," we had "help/holp." Over time, -ed became the preferred way to mark the past tense, and eventually the past tense of most verbs was formed by adding -ed. But the old pattern was preserved in verbs like "eat/ate," "give/gave," "take/ took," "get/got" - verbs that are used very often, and so are more entrenched as a linguistic habit (the very frequently used "was/ were" is a holdover from an even older pattern). They became irregular because the world changed around them. — Arika Okrent

Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply impressed by the marvels of art, a philosopher to whom no one of the higher sciences was unknown, a statesman versed in the policy of European courts. To the eyes of those who observed him superficially he might have passed for one of those cosmopolitans, curious of knowledge, but disdaining action; one of those opulent travelers, haughty and cynical, who move incessantly from place to place, and are of no country. — Jules Verne

He feared that if he merely hopped in, and out of bed with different women, using sex to find love, then he would become so confused in lust he'd forget what he had been looking for in the first place. — Felix Alexander

I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future. — Michael D. Higgins

Dorms?" Amy heard Natalie call from behind her. "You're joking, right?"
"Don't worry," Hamilton said as he raced ahead, carrying both his and Natalie's suitcases. "Madison doesn't sleepwalk anymore."
"Bring that back!" Natalie shouted as she ran after him. "I'm going to stay at the Ritz-Carlton!"
"Is that where they make the crackers?" Madison asked. "I'm coming, too! — Clifford Riley

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish. — William Shakespeare