Snuffly Quotes & Sayings

For the wisest are always the humblest. — Shanti Christo Foundation

Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by the silence ... For the first time in history, American mass-production workers had stopped a conveyor belt and halted the inexorable movement of factory machinery. — Ruth McKenney

We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life." Life has never been normal. Even those periods which we think most tranquil, like the nineteenth century, turn out, on closer inspection, to be full of crises, alarms, difficulties, emergencies. — C.S. Lewis

I don't believe my athletes care what I know, until they know that I care. — Teri McKeever

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation. — Catherynne M Valente

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail. — John B. S. Haldane

Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors. — Charlie Chaplin

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely. — George Herbert

Exceptionalism" - the view that the United States has a right to impose its will because it knows more, sees farther, and lives on a higher moral plane than other nations - was to them not a platitude, but the organizing principle of daily life and global politics. — Stephen Kinzer

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem to wear so badly. — George Orwell

I like everything about you, Larry. I like the way you look and how you're so clever, and I like it when we laugh together and watch TV together. I like going to art galleries with you and hearing you get all bitchy about some of the artists. I like watching you when you're doing marking, 'cause you get these funny looks on your face. I like watching you sleep and hearing that snuffly noise you make. I like waking up with you at weekends and spending the day together, just doing stuff like walking round town and shopping and cooking and stuff." I kind of ran out of breath after that.
For a moment, I thought he was going to cry."Is there anything you don't like about me? — J.L. Merrow

The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [ ... ]
After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely orange tinged in the yellow of the light on the scattered low clouds, I, who hadn't slept, could finally, slowly raise my body, exhausted from nothing from the bed from which I had thought the universe. — Fernando Pessoa

It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere but home. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

No one will ever love you as much as you want them to. — Steffan Piper