Shortys Septic Quotes & Sayings

Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people. — Hudson Taylor

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels. — Heidi Julavits

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty. — Zoe Lofgren

Look north.
Achilles on the rampart by the ditch:
He lifts his face to 90; draws his breath;
And from the bottom of his heart emits
So long and loud and terrible a scream,
The icy scabs at either end of earth
Winced in their sleep; and in the heads that fought
It seemed as if, and through his voice alone,
The whole world's woe could be abandoned to the sky.

An in that instant all the fighting glassed. — Christopher Logue

Few there are that will endure a true friend. — Henry George Bohn

Until human being is not ready to receive knowledge, until then it is impossible for God to give knowledge to human being. — Avinash Rai

Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. "I never knew a girl to have such gumption," she'd say. "But I'm not too sure it's a good thing. — Jeannette Walls

Your mother was a saint, if there ever was one. She's smiling on you today, you know that, right?" "I know." "Boy did she love you." "I wish I felt like I knew her," I said, like I always said. "Know yourself, and you'll know her," Dad said, another one of his famous sayings. "You're a lot like her. — Jennifer Handford

If I wasn't idealistic, there wouldn't be anything worth fighting for. — Mik Everett

I had been working on this series called 'Everything Dies,' and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics. — Box Brown

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else. — Winston S. Churchill

She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest.
And me. I was the main ingredient. — Barbara Kingsolver