Rigorous Crossword Quotes & Sayings

FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sometimes we take action, sometimes we take pills. — Fall Out Boy

First and foremost, any great empire thrives on movement: stable lines of supply, of trade, of information. This movement must be unobstructed for officials on imperial business, and monitored and restricted for others on a scale that varied depending on the necessity of these functions to imperial strength and the likelihood of such restrictions causing dangerous levels of dissent. — Kate Elliott

I love Perth. It is my home, and no matter where I am in the world, Perth is where my heart is. — Kerry Stokes

Marriage is meant to keep people together not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That's why we take marriage vows - not wishes — Ngina Otiende

Deliver my soul from the sword,
my darling from the power of the dog. — Thomas Savage

I'm most enthused by the younger people ... and I wouldn't have said that two years ago. I spoke at two college campuses (in Wisconsin) and the students weren't interested. Public Service was a dirty word to them. Now they see it differently. They see you can come together and have a positive impact. I'm encouraged because they now see that we can win on these issues. — Ed Garvey

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing. — Wang Yangming

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard

I am enamour'd of growing out-doors, Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods, — Walt Whitman

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca The Younger

I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks — Tyne O'Connell

Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped. — Michael Leunig

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. — Isaac D'Israeli

To lose is to win. — David Patneaude