Punning With Lance Quotes & Sayings

The dried blood from the wounds leaves dark and repulsive stains on the ground. Cleaning them up, I think of the identical nature of men: the same red blood irrigating the same organs. These organs, situated in the same places, carry out the same functions. The same remedies cure the same illnesses everywhere under the sun, whether the individual be white or black. Everything united men. Why, then, do they kill each other in ignoble wars for causes that are futile when compared with the massacre of human lives? So many devastating wars! And yet man takes himself to be a superior being. In what way is his intelligence useful to him? His intelligence begets both good and ill, more often ill than good. — Mariama Ba

Straight, huh? You know, funny thing is, often the straightest of trees have crooked roots. — Ella Frank

...anyone who willingly turns their life upside down by becoming a cook is totally insane to begin with. So many chefs that I have met are dyslexic and totally not school people or intellectuals. That could be symbolic of the kind of lifestyle that they choose to live. They all drink a lot, do a lot of drugs, drink a shitload of coffee and espresso. They don't sleep much, and obviously don't have much of a life outside the kitchen. A cook's friend is a cook, there isn't much time for a non-cook friend or girlfriend. And time really isn't the issue so much as it's a lifestyle and a culture that is very hard to understand or identify with unless you are on the inside. Cooks hang out with cooks because there is nobody else awake, hungry and totally wired at 2am on a Tuesday. — Jennifer Topper

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship. — Gregory Bateson

I support GMOs. And we should label them. We should label them because that is the very best thing we can do for public acceptance of agricultural biotech. And we should label them because there's absolutely nothing to hide. — Ramez Naam

So much of people's fortune, good or bad, depends upon how they choose to fall in love. — Kate Saunders

Ever word collector sure know that feeling, whether you've been catching songs or poems or stories. You've been caught in the magic. -Florentine — Natalie Lloyd

Habit is stronger than nature. — Quintus Curtius Rufus

England was ruled by an aristocracy constantly recruited from parvenus — George Orwell

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion. — Gerry Cooney

He doesn't speak. Instead, he grasps me by the collar of my coat and presses his lips to mine. Kiaran kisses me deeply, with an urgency I never thought him capable of. He kisses me like he knows he's going to die. He kisses me like the world is going to end. — Elizabeth Gilbert

- December 13, 2011, Piscataway, New Jersey, on the road with the Lady Vols, seven months after diagnosis — Pat Summitt

But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it. — Charlene Costanzo