Huckleberry Finn Raft Quotes & Sayings

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be. — Joe Biden

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component. — Tom Waits

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man. — Benjamin Franklin

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. — James Mackintosh

You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. — Patrick Rothfuss

If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it! — Mercedes Lackey

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies. — Benjamin Banneker

Always feel obligated to help people and carter for more needs of people so as to be more relevant to the world — Sunday Adelaja

Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. — Charles Bukowski

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition. — Amy Poehler

But at the best, it is a dull, animal happiness, the content of the full belly. The dominant note of their lives is materialistic. They are stupid and heavy, without imagination. The Abyss seems to exude a stupefying atmosphere of torpor, which wraps about them and deadens them. Religion passes them by. The Unseen holds for them neither terror nor delight. They are unaware of the Unseen; and the full belly and the evening pipe, with their regular "arf an' arf," is all they demand, or dream of demanding, from existence. — Jack London

Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well. — Afia Nathaniel