Limedoodle Quotes & Sayings

After Dickinson and Adams had it out over the Olive Branch Petition, Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, that he and Dickinson "are not to be on speaking terms." How sad is it that this tiff sort of cheers me up? If two of the most distinguished, dedicated, and thoughtful public servants in the history of this republic could not find a way to agree to disagree, how can we expect the current crop of congressional blockheads to get along? — Sarah Vowell

Percy smiled. "Is he a fighter? Frank, you're looking at General Tyson of the Cyclops army. And by the way, Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon." "Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug. — Rick Riordan

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless. — Lord Byron

Some words build houses in your throat. and they live there, content and on fire. — Nayyirah Waheed

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. — Paul Tillich

Human's moral compass doesn't work yet
in worlds where the instinct navigates life. — Toba Beta

When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest ... are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress. — Howard Zinn

People in the world ask for forgiveness, but [true] 'pratikraman' does not happen by doing that. That is like when people casually say 'sorry' or 'thank you'. There is no significance in that; the significance is of 'alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan' (acknowledgement of the mistake, repentance and asking for forgiveness for the mistake, remorse and avowal not to repeat the mistake, respectively). — Dada Bhagwan

I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career. — Rachel Nichols

But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if- — Clifford Chase

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow. — Jean De La Fontaine

I had never yet done such a thing in life, but now I felt a desire to mock.
("In The Court Of The Dragon") — Robert W. Chambers

He decided to study oceanography because nothing else appealed to him, and then he'd ended up stuck in California for four years. — Rainbow Rowell