Stoically Define Quotes & Sayings

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost. — Lucy Stone

On the other hand, those who are willing to wait for an extra season other two for full results (against an Japanese beetle) will turn to milky disease; they will be rewarded with lasting control that become more, rather than less effective with the passage of time. — Rachel Carson

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone. — Evelyn Glennie

What's gotten into you?" he wondered, blinking in sudden frustration.
"Not you, that's for a certainty. — Matt Tomerlin

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions. — Jaggi Vasudev

If you are given lined paper, write crosswise. At least occassionally. — Michael Dirda

There was possibly something complimentary in the way Granny Weatherwax resolutely refused to consider other people's problems. It implied that, in her considerable opinion, they were quite capable of sorting them out by themselves. — Terry Pratchett

Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when he delegates might have been expected to occupy themselves with more pressing concerns -like how they were going to win the war and escape hanging- Congress quite extraordinarily found time to debate business for a motto for the new nation. (Their choice, E Pluribus Unum, "One from Many", was taken from, of all places, a recipe for salad in an early poem by Virgil.) — Bill Bryson

Every letter
that she types;
every keystroke
that she strikes-
To spell your name
again and again,
is all she ever
wants to write. — Lang Leav

Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human. — Kathryn Schulz

Philadelphians are intensely loyal. They don't switch teams even when the Sixers lose by 63 points or the Phillies finish last in the NL East. — Steve Capus

The great part about getting older is you realize that you don't have to impress anyone else. — Ruth Cardello

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated. — Aleister Crowley

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth. — Elissa Schappell

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. — Henry Ward Beecher