Piping Plover Quotes & Sayings

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me. — Jim Butcher

Half a calamity is better than a whole one. — T.E. Lawrence

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that. — Ram Dass

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given. — Tony Evans

Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same. — Bram Stoker

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. — Robert A. Heinlein

To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators. — Lewis H. Lapham

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary. — Stephanie Coontz

... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water. — Eugie Foster

Good," Violet says. "Because I'll expect you to come back over when Monty and I get married."
"Monty?" Hadley asks, staring at her. She tries to successfully to recall if she's even seen them speak to each other. "You guys are engaged?" "Not yet," Violet says as she starts walking toward the dinning room. "But you don't look so gobsmacked. I've got a good feeling about it." Hadley falls into step beside her. "That's it? A good feeling?" "That's it," she says. "I think it's meant to be. — Jennifer E. Smith

She was neither widow nor mother: she only yearned for the dignity of a woman who had once belonged, somewhere, to somebody. She had belonged to no one, for she had never wanted chick nor child. Her idea of home had been any side-alley entrance and a pint of tinted gin. All she had ever striven for was small change left lying by strangers on North Clark Street bars; and any man's bottle at all. — Nelson Algren

The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry. — Glenn Archer

Love is hope when reason despairs. — Jack Hyles

Let's talk about why I'm naked and you're not. — Kenya Wright

No one can do the learning for you. — Lailah Gifty Akita