Licarose Quotes & Sayings

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you rely neither on yourself nor on others, you will rejoice when things go well, and not be aggrieved when they don't. — Yoshida Kenko

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education. — William Osler

Dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets — Elizabeth Chandler

I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories. — Molly Antopol

Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. — Noam Chomsky

Stop thanking god for your parking spot. He had nothing to do with it, and if he did, I want nothing to do with him. — Dov Davidoff

We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,
or our faith or lack of faith,
but only with what God has said — Gordon Lindsay

Softness to traitors will destroy us all. — Maximilien Robespierre

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves
there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. — Joan Didion

With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

But dear, you hate to sew.
I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is generally assumed to have no other thoughts in her head and can safely harbor any number of improprieties. That will come in handy, especially when I'm married to a wizard. — Patricia A. McKillip

Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! — William Wordsworth

I decided to masturbate with shampoo instead of conditioner today. Because yolo. Things Jesus never said. — Dave Matthes