Loschan Quotes & Sayings

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. — Lewis Carroll

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies. — Huston Smith

That does almost nothing to address voters' concerns, which remain a potent factor in the campaign. The bottom line is, there's a reason Republicans keep pushing so hard against Obamacare: So far, it's working. — Byron York

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing. — Donald Hall

Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does. — Ahmed H. Zewail

All right, here's a limerick: A young martial artist called Dave Was fearless and handsome and brave He saved me from thugs When I nearly got mugged So now I'm forever Dave's slave." There was a short silence. I cringed. "Um, sorry. Came out a bit gay, that one." Bugger, bugger, bugger. — J.L. Merrow

It is my firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs — Malaclypse The Younger

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl. — Peter Sarsgaard

Government ... is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection. — Andrew Horning

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand

Europeans were always trying to stop the outflow. Hernando de Soto had to post guards to keep his men and women from defecting to Native societies. The Pilgrims so feared Indianization that they made it a crime for men to wear long hair. "People who did run away to the Indians might expect very extreme punishments, even up to the death penalty," Karen Kupperman tells us, if caught by whites.49 Nonetheless, right up to the end of independent Native nationhood in 1890, whites continued to defect, and whites who lived an Indian lifestyle, such as Daniel Boone, became cultural heroes in white society. — James W. Loewen

Be the embodiment of success — Thabiso Monkoe

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America. — Toyin Odutola