Soapwort Perennial Quotes & Sayings

Blow, wind, crack your cheeks, I thought. Brian wasn't the only one who could quote Shakespeare. I made it to my room without thinking of any other suitably apocalyptic line from Lear, and I was too tired to start in on Othello. I flopped onto the bed facedown - and immediately I was bent into a bow shape, with the soles of my feet facing the back of my head. — Jeff Lindsay

If I heard a girl crying help
I would go to save her;
But you hardly ever hear those words.
Dear children, you must try to say
Something when you are in need.
Don't confuse hunger with greed;
And don't wait until you are dead. — Ruth Stone

The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be — Pema Chodron

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help. — Bruce Lee

Mace watched his beautiful sister. She took after their mother. He took after his father. And they got along about as well as that pair did. — Shelly Laurenston

Don't think it evil. I'm sure it's ... On our side! — Nagaru Tanigawa

While I was sleeping, I had a beautiful dream that all the people of the world got together on the same wavelength and began helping each other. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

Part of the lore of the Mirage poker room was the four-day $600-$1,200 game Ted played with Hamid Dastmalchi, the 1992 World Champion and a man similarly possessed of a cast-iron constitution. At the end of it, Dastmalchi was taken out of the Mirage in an ambulance. Forrest joked that it was all the bad beats he showed Hamid, but it may have had more to do with the estimated fifty packs of cigarettes Dastmalchi smoked during the game. — Michael Craig