Pettifogger Origin Quotes & Sayings

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other. — Majora Carter

You start seeing things that you're afraid of ... or things you've always wished for. — Eowyn Ivey

I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale. Though people think I have everything, it sometimes feels like my possessions own me; towering over me and reducing me into a small bundle of insignificance. — J. Matthew Nespoli

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create. — Ian Hacking

Evidently there is difficulty, real difficulty, in learning a foreign language at all, as if it sprinkled all the sweet flavor of the Greek mythical stories with a foul taste. — Augustine Of Hippo

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. — Charles Spurgeon

Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down. — Lana Del Rey

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects ... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that [my children] should be bred up in it too. — William Cobbett

ditched Grover as soon as we got to the bus terminal. — Rick Riordan

The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting. — James Fenton

It tugs at something deep inside me, makes me wonder, when I never wonder. Makes me want, when I never want. — Tracy Wolff

The commonalities include the following, in the order of the Moses myth as in the Bible. For the exact book or tablet in which these themes appear, please consult the epic itself. — D.M. Murdock