Huckleberry Finn Civilized Quotes & Sayings

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once. — John C. Maxwell

You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing. — Donald Faison

This is where the pivotal events of my childhood unfolded, while I ate banana and root beer Popsicles, two by two, tucking the sticks neatly under the skirt of the chair. It's where Sunnybank Lad met Lady, Ken met his friend Flicka, Atlanta burned, Manderley burned, Lassie came home, Jim ran away, Alice got small, Wilbur got big, David Copperfield was born, Beth died, and, on an endless gloomy winter afternoon, Jody shot his yearling. — Jo Ann Beard

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end. — Rick Yancey

Chester had even told Zane to call him Grandpa. — Abigail Roux

You run ahead? Are you doing it as a shepherd? Or as an exception? A third case would be as a fugitive. First question of conscience.

Are you genuine? Or merely an actor? A representative? Or that which is represented? In the end, perhaps you are merely a copy of an actor. Second question of conscience.

Are you one who looks on? Or one who lends a hand? Or one who looks away and walks off? Third question of conscience.

Do you want to walk along? Or walk ahead? Or walk by yourself? One must know what one wants and that one wants. Fourth question of conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To be a winner in life, be simple and be kind.
You will win the heart and you will win the mind. — Debasish Mridha

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. — Alan Dershowitz

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though. — Seth Godin

In the night's in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child's imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer themselves but never the one to be. — Cormac McCarthy

We can say either that we make progress little by little, or that we do not even expect to make progress. Just to be sincere and make our full effort in each moment is enough. — Shunryu Suzuki

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster. — Haruki Murakami

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks
The careful ways of duty;
Our hard, stiff lines of life with her
Are flowing curves of beauty.
— John Greenleaf Whittier

Machiavelli did believe that it was better to appear to be good than to be good. If you're good, you're just too vulnerable, but if you appear to be good, you get all the benefits plus you can be sneaky and, when necessary, stab someone in the back. — David Ignatius

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight! — Terry Pratchett