Stalagmites Formation Quotes & Sayings

We have forgotten what Thomas Jefferson told us in 1776: that we are endowed by the Creator "with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Not happiness, mind you, but its pursuit. By implication Jefferson warned that if you pursue happiness for someone else, you deny him the right to pursue it on his own. — John Rosemond

The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture. — Leon Trotsky

The boy is so stupid; to count to twenty-one he'd have to drop his pants. — James Axler

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. — Hannah Arendt

Your soul is so close to mine
That what you dream, I know. ...
I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine! — Rumi

What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain. — Jeanette Winterson

I've fallen in love with you and it pisses me off. — Michelle Gable

Helplessly I look at him. He will never be just Rowan again. I will never be just Rhine. Everything has been tampered with. — Lauren DeStefano

College wasn't more school, as Chris had anticipated. School was a normalization of the familiar. College was a penetration into the exotic. — Ethan Mordden

One kiss leads to more. They will have so little of each other, they must take what they can. — Kendare Blake

The more time I spent at the Finches', the more I realized what a waste of my life this school crap was. It was nothing but a holding tank for kids without bigger plans or ideas. — Augusten Burroughs

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost. — Winston Churchill