Stantonsburg Quotes & Sayings

Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley They spat in the eye of beauty and bludgeoned their wait through the notions of aesthetics and aerodynamics. Vogon cruisers did not so much travel through space as defile it and toss it aside. — Eoin Colfer

But they wanted the same things, and it wasn't a lot. Just someone who would be there for them, despite everything else, forever. Everyone wanted that, probably. — Lisa Henry

I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job. — Miranda Lambert

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law. — Walter Wager

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. — Thomas Jefferson

I've done a bit of Latin in my time ... but I can control it. — Eddie Izzard

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground. — Sun Tzu

Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Any system of ethics must account for scarcity. If it doesn't, humanity would perish due to misallocation of finite resources, including one's own body. — Daniel Alexander Brackins

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality. — Antonin Artaud

The point is not to avoid the war, it is to win it. — Terry Pratchett

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it. — Eugene O'Neill

We stand separate from the world because of our gifts. Never forget that, because you may be sure the world never will. — P.C. Cast

The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are at the edge of both law and morality. Yet democracies have shown themselves capable of keeping the secret exercise of power under control. — Michael Ignatieff

She doesn't even have shoes on" He was trying to reconcile something in his head while talking to Luke.
"In all the time you spent in that shack, you forgot to pack her shoes?" Luke asked rhetorically, shaking his head in both wonder and disappointment. "Look, we're in the boonies. I am sure shoes are optional, as are a full set of teeth. — Jenna-Lynne Duncan