Ladle Rat Quotes & Sayings

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. — Anna Quindlen

They were coming back to his mother's neighborhood now, the eastern boundary of which was a bridge spanning a know of train tracks that cut through the city like a zipper. — Nathan Hill

Unfaithfulness in public stations is deeply criminal [he wrote to Abigail]. But there is no encouragement to be faithful. Neither profit, nor honor, nor applause is acquired by faithfulness. . . . There is too much corruption, even in this infant age of our Republic. Virtue is not in fashion. Vice is not infamous. — David McCullough

My daughter lives in an apartment (hovel) in Brooklyn, so disgusting the roaches don't even bother hiking up the four flights of stairs to her door. Did I mention that she has a family of mice living under her stove? If she would promise to carry a weapon in her bag, I would never ask her to visit again. Best Mother's Day gift I could ask for! — Kate Siegel

Moon's gravitational pull means that earth doesn't wobble too much. Scientists call it obliquity. The moon holds us fast. — Jeanette Winterson

So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won't be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered. — Dan Millman

The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame that flares up quickly and then goes out. — C. G. Jung

Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own. — Ivan Turgenev

You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity. — Frederick Lenz

The literature of imaginatiion, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope. — Ursula K. Le Guin

People don't change . . . You just sort of have to take them like they are. — Maureen Johnson

First, you wounded a lion, and then you invite him to feast. — Waheed Ibne Musa