Locuses Quotes & Sayings

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another. — William John Locke

We're all afraid," she said firmly ... "But that didn't stop us. — Lemony Snicket

Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word. — John C. Maxwell

It was like a promise that wishes could come true, that desire might lead to more than yearning. — Cornelia Funke

Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better? — Charles M. Blow

Most major universities now provide extensive courses online, many of which are free. MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative has been a leader in this effort. MIT — Ray Kurzweil

A silent concave of puppet buffoons
neither eagles nor jaguars
buzzard lawyers
locuses
wings of ink sawing mindibles
ventriloquist coyotes
peddlers of shadows
beneficent satraps
the cacomistle thief of hens
the monument to the Rattle and its snake
the altar to the mauser and the machete
the mausoleum of the epauletted cayman
rhetoric sculpted in phrases of cement — Octavio Paz

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever. — Richard Marx

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built. — Billy Bragg

Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it. — Rosamunde Pilcher

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques. — Thomas Merton

Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe