Picus Quotes & Sayings

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men. — Stephen Vincent Benet

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. — Neil Young

All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes. — Spiro T. Agnew

I want to write about grown-up things. — Nicola Griffith

A gorgeous, sensual, Spanish god. That's what he looked like to me. — Karina Halle

I seek wisdom to justify my ignorance — Neal Parks

Able closed his eyes. He was running. The grass was green with spring and fragrant, knee-high and cushioning his steps. And there was sun and a warm wind blew. Men called to him from the trees just atop the rise. He ran. He ran to them. — Lance Weller

That brought Rachel up short. Getting any sort of response out of Notak was hard enough. She could count one hand the times she had ever seen him actually hurt by something. It was like seeing a mountain cry. Something you really didn't want to see. — S.G. Night

When circumstances overwhelm
And seem too much to bear,
Depend unpon the Lord for strength
And trust His tender care. — Sper

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power. — Ann Aguirre

She had liked him for himself, that was indisputable. And yet, much as she had liked him she had liked the bourgeois standard of valuation more. — Jack London

Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office. — Edmund White

You stupid, conceited fool! You know nothing! You're like a child, blind to everything but its own empty stomach! Well, grow up, Carl, and join the real world. Until you do, for God's sake leave me be! — Amanda Browning

Interpreters, and have in a short time considered themselves superior to their masters. This was the case with Ficinus, Picus, Dr, Plenry Moore, and other psucdo Platonists, their contemporaries, who, in order to combine Christianity with the doctrines of Plato, rejected some of his most important tenets, and perverted others, and thus corrupted one of these systems, and afforded no real benefit to the other. — Anonymous

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing. — Juan Williams