Lloran Quotes & Sayings

Give a man a proverb
and he'll muse for a moment.
Teach a man to find the verb in every proverb
and he'll walk in wisdom for a lifetime. — Cameron Semmens

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation. — Hester Lynch Piozzi

Know who you are, know what you believe, and know how your beliefs and actions will affect others. — Richard Heket

The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of disequilibrium has no more demonstrable value than the fact that in the same period humanity learned to resolve states of psychological imbalance by using alcohol or other equally devastating substances. — Umberto Eco

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway

I can only say that friendship should rise above man-made laws, which tend to be capricious by their very nature. — Tendai Huchu

[Listening to a song] one could experience a freedom from one's physical body, and from one's social body - the mask you wore to go about in public among those who thought they knew you, an unchosen mask of nervousness and tradition, the mask that, when owrn too long, makes the face behind it shrivel up and rot away. For some, a spinning record opened up the possibility that one might say anything, in any voice, with any face, the singer's mask now a sign of mystery. — Greil Marcus

Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the laws of biology and physics, the intelligent design of a Divine Creator. — Daniel Walker Howe

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see. — Robert Browning

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best. — Logan Pearsall Smith

And I kind of like the Teen Rebels; they seem to be better than the Bullying Trio. Still, watch your backs, rebels! — Jacquel Chrissy May

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love. — Robert Jordan

He makes me feel all jiggly inside. STOP FEELING. Stop caring. — Julie Anne Peters