Kalton Collins Quotes & Sayings

Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces, dressing up some scene for our entertainment. Lately we had a leafy wilderness; now bare twigs begin to prevail, and soon she will surprise us with a mantle of snow. Some green she thinks so good for our eyes that, like blue, she never banishes it entirely from our eyes, but has created evergreens. — Henry David Thoreau

My potential salvation ... must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open our eyes with "aha"
while direct, abstract, learned assaults upon generalities usually glaze them over. — Stephen Jay Gould

I'd always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there — Charlaine Harris

I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission. — Faye Wattleton

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves. — Pierre Trudeau

How do you get shadows when there's no sun in the sky? she thought, because it was better to think about things like this than all the other, much — Terry Pratchett

Not that my watching out was likely to do a lot of good, I thought; every second man on the dock looked like an assassin to me. — Diana Gabaldon

You can not know but can pray into what lies ahead. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. — Rex Stout