Rutted Trail Quotes & Sayings

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. — B. R. Hayden

There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists, and what you wound up with was unalloyed chaos, an infinite jumble of exceptions. That was because writing was a disease, Tom continued, what you might call an infection or influenza of the spirit, and therefore it could strike anyone at any time. The young and the old, the strong and the weak, the drunk and the sober, the sane and the insane. Scan the roster of the giants and semi-giants, and you would discover writers who embraced every sexual proclivity, every political bent, and every human attribute - from the loftiest idealism to the most insidious corruption. They were criminals and lawyers, spies and doctors, soldiers and spinsters, travelers and shut-ins. — Paul Auster

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself. — Abraham Lincoln

Spirituality yields two fruits. The first in inspiration to know what to do. The second is power, or the capacity to do it. These two capacities come together. That's why Nephi could say, 'I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded' (1 Nephi 3:7). He knew the spiritual laws upon which inspiration and power are based. Yes, God answers prayer and gives us spiritual direction when we live obediently and exercise the required faith in Him. — Richard G. Scott

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting. — Bruce Nauman

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Plants are as responsive to thought as children. — Luther Burbank

You're the only thing I've ever wanted to fight for. — Kiera Cass

There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there. — Mark Messier

I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in Russian when you translate her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you deal with folks. You show strength if you made a mistake. — Louie Gohmert

I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65. — Adam Clayton

Psychaiatrist realize that there are curative powers in confession. — Billy Graham

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Purgatory is where you unwrite the book of your life story — Chuck Palahniuk