Savored Def Quotes & Sayings

Even to see her walk across the room is a liberal education. — C.S. Lewis

Almost everyone wants to claim to be on Jesus' side, but if we're honest we have to wonder if we, too, might have called for His execution if He had lived in our generation. Jesus is the one person in history about whom almost everyone has a strong opinion. You owe it to yourself to find out who He really was. — Kenneth D. Boa

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today. — Thomas Gray

I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things. — Gifford Pinchot

A villain let your creativity out of its cage. — Jodi Picoult

[The] defining characteristics of good prose [are]: a preference for short sentences diversified by an occasionally very long one; a tone that is relaxed and almost colloquial; a large vocabulary that enjoys exploiting the different etymological and social levels of words; and an insistence on verbal and logical precision. — F.W. Bateson

the luxuries and redundancy of speech" - indulgences appealing to
the passions rather than to reason - that he believed "eloquence ought
to be banished out of all civil societies as a thing fatal to peace and good
manners. — Nora Bacon

Don't be absurd!" Jerome said. "Ruthless kidnapping villains aren't in! — Lemony Snicket

We will only truly change the world when we change the way we treat and raise our children."

Oh yeah: Please read my book — Christopher Lombardi

Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish. — Paul Watson

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?
[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)] — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it. — Jennifer Lee

The storm drowns the ship,
but it does not drown the fish. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a prayer as well as the next man, and leave it to Heaven to judge the result. — Robert Charles Wilson