Strucket Quotes & Sayings

On Lee as commander: He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor. — Shelby Foote

The Churches of the Standing Order were filled with unconverted persons, with many who had grown up in them from infancy, being introduced at that time by christening; and but a small proportion of their members made any claim to a spiritual regeneration. The intuitions of a converted soul recoil from Church associations with those whose only claim to membership in Christ's mystical body is a ceremony performed over an unconscious infant, for the renewed man seeks fellowship with those who, like himself, have exercised faith in Christ's saving merits, and he is likely to take the Scriptures for his guide in seeking his Church home. — Thomas Armitage

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative. — Piet Mondrian

Do not mistake awkwardness for callousness. Remember, I am a solitary person, as I warned you. I'm not accustomed to easy and warm social exchange. — Irvin D. Yalom

We must take things as we find them in this world. — Mark Twain

We can't go on ... having regular bowel movements ... while creation happens! — Poul Anderson

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down. — Martin Scorsese

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors. — Glenn Close

True moderation in the defence of political liberties is indeed a difficult thing: pretending to want fair shares for all, every man raises himself by depressing his neighbour; our anxiety to avoid oppression leads us to practice it ourselves; the injustice we repel, we visit in turn upon others, as if there were no choice except either to do it or to suffer it. — Livy

Actually, observed Lucette, wiping the long envelope which a drop of soda had stained,- Bergson is only for very young people or very unhappy people, such as this available rousse. — Vladimir Nabokov