Ploughshares Literary Quotes & Sayings

Maybe it's because I've never been in politics, but I don't believe that America is run by politicians in Washington. I believe it's run by people like us, in places like this. — Wesley Clark

Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end. — Pamela Anderson

Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding.
Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life. — William S. Burroughs

The three first-year apprentices watched in awe as the two marksmen slammed arrow after arrow into the almost invisible targets. "Anytime before sunset would be fine," Will drawled. — John Flanagan

We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there ... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy ... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love. — Henri Nouwen

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say. — Colin Wilson

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some. — Emo Philips

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. — Sun Tzu

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race. — Jessica Capshaw

Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it. — Mason Cooley

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys. — Elspeth Huxley