Revolutionary War Loyalists Quotes & Sayings

Scholarship is polite argument. — Philip Rieff

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses. — Thornton Wilder

If the Britannica has taught me anything, it's to be more careful. I don't want to turn into an unseemly noun or verb or adjective someday. I don't want to be like Charles Boycott, the landlord in Ireland who refused to lower rents during a famine, leading to the original boycott. I don't want to be like Charles Lynch, who headed an irregular court that hung loyalists during the Revolutionary War. I can't have "Jacobs" be a verb that means staying home all the time or washing your hands too frequently. — A. J. Jacobs

There was good reason why Cleopatra's subjects viewed time as a coil of endless repetitions. — Stacy Schiff

To the aircraft I aim, not the man. — Francesco Baracca

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. — Amy Tan

Paige claimed my toothbrush!" I complained to no one in particular.
"I forgot to pack my own," Paige replied defensively, "not that I have one. I haven't brushed my teeth in months, Tess, I ran away, remember? So I deserve it."
"You could use mine," Jayden called, only half sarcastic.
"What makes you think that has any potential to be a solution? And just because we're dating now doesn't mean there's no such thing as germs!" I called back. — Embee

You're not really the Night Angel. You're only a shadow and shadows can't touch anything. — Brent Weeks

I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt. — Clementine Von Radics

To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function. — Eric Maisel

I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine. — Meghan Daum

No boy ever makes you special. You just are. Understand? — Heather Davis

I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written. — Jack White