Padavich Quotes & Sayings

In every era there comes a moment when the collective thoughts, whims, and motivations of a people become so self-absorbed, so malignant, so unheeding that nature itself revolts. Man scars the land such that it finally rebels against him. As thoughts can spread despair and death like seedlings of weeds strewn by the wind, so they eventually draw the Gardener to pluck them out. The vetches must be pulled, roots and all. When this happens, the Medium ceases to bless, and instead, it curses. Instead of healing, it spews poison. It happens swiftly and terribly. The ancients gave it a name, this culling process that blackens the world. They named it after a wasting disease that occurs in once-healthy groves of trees. They called it the Blight. — Jeff Wheeler

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. — Jeff Goodell

Ah, children are not what they were in my young days. They listened to their parents then. — L.M. Montgomery

Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind ... but he won't. — Ellen Hopkins

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office. — Susanna Clarke

For the first time in his whole life, Laurent played the game out of love instead of hate. But it wasn't his love of hockey that kept him focused in net.
Every time a puck came toward him and he made a save, he thought, "This is for Isaac." Every time one of his dickhead former teammates snarled something insulting or called him names, he ignored them and thought about Isaac calling him Saint. He thought about Isaac's dumb blue hair dye that had left a stain in Laurent's shower and that lip ring that drove Laurent crazy. He thought about the lake and eating a Twinkie on Isaac's floor. He thought about Isaac saying he loved him. — Avon Gale

All the people that criticised me should eat their words. — Diego Maradona

Any man who loves a woman as she deserves to be loved is a magician. — Nina George

He has that look, like I am being unreasonable, like he is so sure I am being unreasonable that I wonder if I am. — Gillian Flynn

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us. — Ed Belfour

The rich are obscure to us, finding ways to be unhappy when all the normal causes of unhappiness are removed. — Salman Rushdie

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation. — Susan B. Anthony

A joyful task,' he says and she realizes that he welcomes the idea of years of searching, tile by tile, inscription by inscription, cornice by cornice and niche by niche, that the painstaking search of Sinan's greatest achievement, decades long, is the holy task; that the secret letter is cut in every stone and tile. By the time you find it, you have realized the supreme unimportance of finding it. A Sufi lesson. — Ian McDonald