Paperweight Joshua Quotes & Sayings

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women. — Helen Fisher

Whole realm was his. He plunged into the swimming tank or went hunting with the Judge's sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge's daughters, on long twilight or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the Judge's feet before the roaring library fire; he carried the Judge's grandsons on his back, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain in the stable yard, and even beyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry patches. Among the terriers he stalked imperiously, and Toots and Ysabel he utterly ignored, for he was king, - king over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller's — Jack London

I should like to be famous and unknown. — Edgar Degas

Either you 'are' in your mind, or you are where you are. Fully present. — Matthew Donnelly

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches. — Carl Sandburg

The wisest as well as the most dangerous men are those who observe without speaking. — Jeff Wheeler

We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in. — Tarryn Fisher

I respect commas far more than I respect congressmen. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement. — Douglas Kirkland

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. — Brennan Manning

The thousand dresses, laid out so reverently that afternoon, flecks of dust brushed off carefully in doorways, hems gathered up for the carriage trip: where are they now? Is a single one museum-displayed? Are some few yet saved in attics? Most are dust. As are the women who wore them so proudly in that transient moment of radiance. — George Saunders

How . . ." Dalinar said. "You fell into a chasm!"
"I fell face-first, sir," Kaladin said, "and fortunately, I'm particularly hard-headed. — Brandon Sanderson