Hoofing Hills Quotes & Sayings

When your young life offered its first disaster, naturally it loomed large. After you'd survived dozens, you basically just told the next one to take a number and get in line. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Surely, I find myself daydreaming, there is something, some substance already in common use, that women could drink after sex or at the end of the month, that would keep them unpregnant with no one the wiser. — Katha Pollitt

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. — Charles Sumner

Learn by practice. — Martha Graham

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others. — June Singer

in describing the various writers of his idolatry he more than once lets fall a phrase that could equally apply to himself. 'To read Spenser,' he says, 'is to grow in mental health.' What he values in Addison is his 'open-mindedness.' The moments of despair chronicled in Scott's diary cannot, he claims, counterpoise 'that ease and good temper, that fine masculine cheerfulness' suffused through the best of the Waverly novels. Most of all it was the chiaroscuro of what Chaucer called 'earnest' and 'game' that attracted him. He found it eminently in the poetry of Dunbar, that late-medieval Scottish maker who wrote the greatest religious poetry and the earthiest satire in the language — Jocelyn Gibb

My mom wasn't a movie star. — Jeff Bridges

Love is the force that leaves you colorless — Ovid

In logic, there are no morals. — Rudolf Carnap

The myriad of dysfunctions of the human community can be traced to this one thing: awe. When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community. — Paul David Tripp

It's true, you know. In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl. — Andy Weir

*Always schedule enough time between connections. I always like to give myself at least two hours between flights. It's much easier to sit in the terminal for three hours than it is to sit on standby for two days because you missed your connection. — Morgan Carver Richards

The price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is. — Charles Bukowski

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe. — Dallas Willard