Marcial Ama Quotes & Sayings

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous. — Samuel Johnson

There is something talismanic about familiar words. — Marcel Theroux

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. — Luc De Clapiers

We didn't have to go looking for problems. — Mark Soluka

There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." — Harriette Simpson Arnow

Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart. — Pope Benedict XVI

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him. — Cory Doctorow

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome. — John Lothrop Motley

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with. — Orhan Pamuk

Art is evidence of our most creative moment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hi."
"Honey!" exclaimed Patsy. "Good to hear your voice! Listen, I oughtta go pull my robe on 'fore we commence. You caught me nekkid as a jaybird."
" 'Nekkid' or 'naked,' mama?"
"What's the blessed difference? Are you making Yankee fun of the way I talk? The way you used to talk?"
"No, no, mama, let me tell you. Naked means you just don't have any clothes on. Nekkid means you don't have any clothes on and you're fixing to get into trouble. — Tom Robbins

America has developed a pie tradition unequivocally and unapologetically at the sweet end of the scale, and at no time is this better demonstrated than at Thanksgiving. — Janet Clarkson

I love when God slips in and takes care of things without our knowledge at the moment. — Amanda Penland

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. — George Gordon Byron