Percolation Rate Quotes & Sayings

And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box. — Hans Christian Andersen

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society. — Bryan Cranston

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years. — Ray Bradbury

Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met -- or never parted --
we had ne'er been broken-hearted — Robert Burns

YOU CAN'T DEPEND ON PEOPLE BECAUSE ...
... they go away.
... strangers die.
... people you know fairly well die.
... friends die.
... people murder people, like in books.
... your own folks can die.
So ... — Ray Bradbury

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal. — Samuel Johnson

Rascals, do you want to live forever? — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Let us beg from God, a spiritual palate to relish a sweetness in holy things. For lack of spiritual hearts, we come to duty without delight, and go away without profit! — Thomas Watson

Keep away. The sow is mine. — William Peter Blatty

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. — Caroline Knapp

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right. — Leroy Hood

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body? — Thomas Hobbes

I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society's evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number. — Marilyn Manson