Killdeer Quotes & Sayings

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it. — Bobby Fischer

[Judy Price] Osgood was among about half a dozen [Hillary] Clinton friends who I sat down with more than a year ago before she announced her candidacy. — Tamara Keith

Martin Mayer's 1958 book Madison Avenue USA — Paul Feldwick

My pain is fine. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Why do people get upset when Christians say there is only one way to Heaven? Shouldn't those who follow a particular religion believe its doctrine to be true? — Monica Johnson

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. — Mahatma Gandhi

Anglicans don't really forbid anything,' Kelly said. 'We just decide we're above it. — K. D. Miller

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I would stagger barefoot across a hundred deserts after any lunatic at all. But although the pearl may be found, it may not be sought. The literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most practiced and adept, a gift and a total surprise. I return from one walk knowing where the killdeer nests in the field by the creek and the hour the laurel blooms. I return form the same walk a day later scarcely knowing my own name. Litanies hum in my ears; my tongue flaps in my mouth. Ailinon, alleluia! — Annie Dillard

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do. — Alison Moyet

The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad. — Woody Hayes

The sharp thrill of seeing them [killdeer birds] reminded me of childhood happiness, gifts under the Christmas tree, perhaps, a kind of euphoria we adults manage to shut out most of the time. This is why I bird-watch, to recapture what it's like to live in this moment, right now. — Lynn Thomson

Books are what you love. They are what you know. It's obviously your passion. I didn't want you to lose that. You've lost enough — J.L. Mac

There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful. — Wylie Dufresne

To his family, Pasteur remarks in frustration, "How difficult it is to obtain the triumph of truth! Opposition is a useful stimulant, but bad faith is such a pitiable thing. How is it that they are not struck with the results shown by statistics? — Bill Wasik