Pottage Ancient Quotes & Sayings

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying. — Herodotus

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand. — Anne Roiphe

So, you're the last one to fall," he says. He's serious all of a sudden. "I never really worried about you. I worried more about Pete, because I knew you had more ability to love than any of the rest of us."
"What makes you say that?"
"I don't know," he hedges. "You just wore your heart on your sleeve. You love, and you love well and true. That's one of your strengths. — Tammy Falkner

I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha! — Mark Hadlow

Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength. — Sri Chinmoy

Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS. — Nicholas Stern

Let me out," Harry said again.
"No," Dumbledore repeated.
"If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-"
"By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many. — J.K. Rowling

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. — Brian Ferneyhough

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place! — Christopher Atkins