Quoits Quotes & Sayings

Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved. — Rollo May

She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief. — Donna Tartt

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true. — Oscar Wilde

I have no more campaigns to run. I know because I won both of them. — Barack Obama

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand. — Janet Morris

Faith is taking action when common sense says no. After — Christopher Greenwood

Supernatural man drama was making me grouchy. — Chloe Neill

why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? — Bram Stoker

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold. — Anthony Burgess

Blasphemy is not an offence against truth, but the offence of truth against Priestcraft. — Philanthropos

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy. — Morton Blackwell

As a child, I was constantly being sent on playdates with other kids - the shrinks insisted I interact with cohorts. That's what my meeting with Lyle was like: those first loose, horrible ten minutes, when the grown-ups have left, and neither kid knows what the other one wants, so you stand there, near the TV they've told you to keep off, fiddling with the antenna. — Gillian Flynn

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind. — George Eliot

Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth's resources and living processes. — Vandana Shiva

Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention. — E. J. Gold