Pungency Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size, in power, in everything a man could think of-and in that belief there was a might and a fury that would take form instantly at the moment of shock. — Bruce Catton

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Honor the old but allow for innovation. — Beau Sides

You can buy knowledge but not wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation. — Erica Jong

The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Much of my work has come from being lazy. — John Backus

The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting-there is no hand like mother's. Nor does its tender care diminish through the years. — Thomas S. Monson

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. — Desmond Tutu

My wife was afraid of the dark ... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light. — Rodney Dangerfield

We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them to preserve its power. Laws devised for the depravity of power are as worthless as the paper they are printed on. — Aleksandar Hemon

He smiled almost serenely. "I love him." Ty blinked at that, his mouth falling open. "I love him, Ty." Ty stared at him, then looked down at the bar top for a long few seconds, then back up at Nick with narrowed eyes. "Are we talking with the heart love or with the dick love?" he asked, echoing Nick's words from so long ago. Nick merely grinned. "Good," Ty said softly. "What? — Abigail Roux