Polymorphisms Affecting Quotes & Sayings

(...)no one can take the place of a perfect mother who gives you the world as you know it and makes you believe that it is yours to take. — Tristan Wood

[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor. — John Leo

Climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life, and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. — Andy Serkis

He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer. — Robert A. Heinlein

These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied. — Earl Nightingale

Even printed, on pages that are bound, sentences remain unsettled organisms. Years later, I can always reach out to smooth a stray hair. And yet, at a certain point, I must walk away, trusting them to do their work. I am left looking over my shoulder, wondering if I might have structured one more effectively. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities. — Fred Tomaselli

JOIN THE CIRCUS OF CHAOS ... juggling, stilt walking, and other skills for socially acceptable procrastination. — Pat Murphy