Polymorphemic Quotes & Sayings

Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star? — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream. — Marva Collins

Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free. — Saint Augustine

You make me want to be less of an asshole. — Penny Reid

Eyes sparkling with blue open and stare a scalded soul at me. — Poppet

It takes twenty-one pounds of protein fed to a calf to produce a single pound of animal protein for humans. We get back less than 5 percent of what we put in. — Peter Singer

Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials. — Barton Gellman

Flowerlike, I loved nothing.

from "Mayday on Holderness — Ted Hughes

It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there's no law nor order no more. — Anthony Burgess

There was a time when I wished it would stop, when I tried to forget, but forgetting took such strength it was easier to accept you were a missing part of me and get on with life. — Rachel Joyce

But what are you? Buddhist? Japanese? Communist? What?' 'I'm nothing.' 'Can you be nothing?' I never knew how to answer that question when I was asked it as a child, because the wording troubled me. Can you be nothing? I will be nothing. — Jaume Cabre

What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones. — Carl Sagan

I did not understand how quickly one could fall in love, and I regarded almost as an affliction that one would eventually recover from. However, I now recognize that it is a force that reaches into every fiber of your body, and that it is something not to be resisted, but embraced. — Mary Lydon Simonsen