John Quincy Archibald Quotes & Sayings

It takes a fraction of the time it took us to generate and build to tear down the trust that we have developed over the years... — Assegid Habtewold

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood. — William Golding

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing. — Michael Morpurgo

There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell. — Terry Pratchett

I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit? — Temple Grandin

She knows how to make me feel better - when she isn't making me feel like an asshole — Abria Mattina

I would care that someone understood we were flawed and scarred and doing the best we could in this war. We were wrapped up in things that were so much bigger than ourselves. We didn't know. We didn't mean to. It wasn't our fault. — Monica Hesse

There are lots of things that I'm always pulling inspiration from. — Tom DeLonge

He did not have time to wallow, to give a moment's thought to what may have happened to her or whether she was alive.

Turn into the punch, grab hold of the gun, leap into the arena. Attack.

He had to move. Now. — G.S. Jennsen

LADY BRACKNELL. [Rising and drawing herself up.] You must be quite aware that what you propose is out of the question. JACK. Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to. — Oscar Wilde

My fatherland has always the first claim on me. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?'
'Manipulated.'
'Exactly. She is a dutiful girl - a great sense of duty: I think it rather stupid, but there it is - but still she finds the way her mother has been arranging and pushing and managing and angling in all this perfectly odious. You two must have had hogsheads of that grocer's claret forced down your throats. Perfectly odious: and she is obstinate - strong, if you like - under that bread-and-butter way of hers. It will take a great deal to move her; much more than the excitement of a ball. — Patrick O'Brian

Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread. — Max Lucado