Schiefer Clutches Quotes & Sayings

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul. — Mahatma Gandhi

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. — Malcolm X

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman. — Aldous Huxley

Against my will I stand beside my own reflection — Linkin Park

The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home. — John Redmond

Training for the ballet, Potter? — J.K. Rowling

He takes out his anger by having his carriage speed through the streets, scattering the commoners in the way. — Charles Dickens

That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much. — Lynn Austin

Strong Mercy:
My desires are many and my cry is pitiful,
but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals;
and this strong mercy has been wrought into my life through and through.
Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple,
great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked
this sky and the light, this body and the
life and the mind
saving me from perils of overmuch desire.
There are times when I languidly linger
and times when I awaken and hurry in search of my goal;
but cruelly thou hidest thyself from before me.
Day by day thou art making me worthy of thy full acceptance by
refusing me ever and anon, saving me from perils of weak, uncertain desire. — Rabindranath Tagore

I smiled. "I need to put a bell on you. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

But no. That was analogy rather than homology. What in the humanities they would call a heroic simile, if he understood the term, or a metaphor, or some other kind of literary analogy. And analogies were mostly meaningless - a matter of phenotype rather than genotype (to use another analogy). Most, of poetry and literature, really all the humanities, not to mention the social sciences, were phenotypic as far as Sax could tell. They added up to a huge compendium of meaningless analogies, which did not help to explain things, but only distorted perception of them. A kind of continuous conceptual drunkenness, one might say. Sax himself much preferred exactitude and explanatory power, and why not? If it was 200 Kelvin outside why not say so, rather than talk about witches' tits and the like, hauling the whole great baggage of the ignorant past along to obscure every encounter with sensory reality? It was absurd. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much ... — John Paul Caponigro

'Game of Thrones' is great. Love it. — Jesse Metcalfe

This is a specific person, do you understand? Not just some patient. I want to make sure you realize that. — Anne Tyler