Leniency Letters Quotes & Sayings

The first two sentences are hard to understand, but make some kind of sense. The last sentence is merely rearranged but makes no natural sense at all. (This is all assuming it makes some sort of sense for an old lady to be swallowing cats in the first place, which is patently absurd, but it turns out she swallowed a goat too, not to mention a horse, so we'll let the cat pass without additional comment.) — Tom Stafford

It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return. — Lauren Willig

I want to quit, I want to quit, I want to quit. And when I'm done quitting, I'd like to quit again. — Andie Mitchell

I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl. — Loni Anderson

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that. — Paloma Faith

Every positive value has its price in negative terms ... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. — Pablo Picasso

Alexander von Humboldt's wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person's stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present. — Daniel Walker Howe

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. — Erma Bombeck

It is hard to give up what you know for what you don't know. — Gloria Whelan

Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion. — Francis Bacon

Now standing in one corner of a boxing ring with a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, shooting a bullet weighing only 40 grains and with a striking energy of 51 foot pounds at 25 feet from the muzzle, I will guarantee to kill either Gene Tunney or Joe Louis before they get to me from the opposite corner. This is the smallest caliber pistol cartridge made; but it is also one of the most accurate and easy to hit with, since the pistol has no recoil. I have killed many horses with it, cripples and bear baits, with a single shot, and what will kill a horse will kill a man. I have hit six dueling silhouettes in the head with it at regulation distance in five seconds. It was this type of pistol that Millen boys' colleague, Abe Faber, did all his killings with. Yet this same pistol bullet fired at point blank range will not dent a grizzly's skull, and to shoot a grizzly with a .22 caliber pistol would simply be one way of committing suicide — Ernest Hemingway,

My affair with Trudy isn't going well. I thought I could take her love for granted. But I've heard biologists debating at dawn. Pregnant mothers must fight the tenants of their wombs. Nature, a mother herself, ordains a struggle for resources that may be needed to nurture my future sibling rivals. My health derives from Trudy, but she must preserve herself against me. So why would she worry about my feelings? If it's in her interests and those of some unconceived squit that I should be undernourished, why trouble herself if a tryst with my uncle upsets me? — Ian McEwan

Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy. — Apollonius Of Tyana

Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition. — Jacob Rothschild

Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement. — Albert Camus