Jernberg Scholar Quotes & Sayings

King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors' hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden's usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn't growing a brain. — Kristin Cashore

My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble. — John Updike

Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion. — Fatima Bint Muhammad

He saw the article ... which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public - an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary. — Ayn Rand

Networked cows are the most effective milk generators on the planet. — Peter Hinssen

So I pulled back from everything and everyone I'd known ... I realized I'd been changing even before we started moving,that my reinvention began when I was still in the most familiar of places. Once the setting was totally new,though, I finally could be,as well. — Sarah Dessen

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense. — Benjamin Disraeli

Ideology is a virus. — Neal Stephenson

If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch. You make your own rules. You are free and beautiful. You — Margot Adler

You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend. — Esther Hicks

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin. — Noam Chomsky

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water
if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under. — Susanna Kearsley

There is a direct correlation between physical exertion and mental relief. — Sakyong Mipham

God is not a drug, and He certainly does not create experiences and emotions that make us feel better but not become better. — Erwin Raphael McManus