Planitzer Quotes & Sayings

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation? — Philip K. Dick

If you'll curtail your literary pursuits a moment I'll introduce you to my counterpart and Nemesis; I would be trite and say, 'to my better half,' but I think that phrase indicates some kind of basically equal division, don't you? — Ken Kesey

We're Bible-thumpers who just happened to end up on television. You put in your article that the Robertson family really believes strongly that if the human race loved each other and they loved God, we would just be better off. We ought to just be repentant, turn to God, and let's get on with it, and everything will turn around. — Phil Robertson

The day stretched out in front of him like an empty road in the desert. — Joanne Harris

It is easy to live with someone of value than someone famous. — Debasish Mridha

At first they hadn't been so bad, but little by little ... his daddy thought about drinking a lot more. Sometimes he was angry at Mommy and didn't know why. He went around wiping his lips with his handkerchief and his eyes were far away and cloudy. — Stephen King

Water has no hands,
but carries great ships.
Air has no shoulders,
but carries large planes.
The Sun has no eyes,
but finds its way around the universe. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My grin was feral, matching my savage best friend's. — Scarlett Dawn

I cry at the end of every book. — Hunter Parrish

I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been. — Charles M. Blow

There are moments in one's life which are like frontier posts marking the completion of a period but at the same time clearly indicating a new direction. At such a moment of transition we feel compelled to view the past and the present with the eagle eye of thought in order to become conscious of our real position. [ ... ] At such moments, however, a person becomes lyrical, for every metamorphosis is partly a swan song, partly the overture to a great new poem, which endeavors to achieve a stable form in brilliant colors that still merge into one another. Nevertheless, we should like to erect a memorial to what we have once lived through in order that this experience may regain in our emotions the place it has lost in our actions. — Karl Marx

But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming. — Laura Lee Gulledge