Swamplandia Questions Quotes & Sayings

Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on earth! — Rosa Bonheur

Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants. — Bryant McGill

Generally, writers descend from a lesser tribe, and whatever claim to beauty we have shows up on the printed page far more often than it does in our mirrors. Even as I writer these words I think of dozens off writers, both male and female, who make a mockery of this generalization. But comeliness among writers is rare enough to be noteworthy. — Pat Conroy

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day. — Gary Bauer

I breathed in, he breathed out. We traded actual air. — Alice Clayton

Hopelessness is the catalyst that inspires men to action and demand justice. — Fred Munoz

makes his sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and sends rain to the righteous and to the unrighteous — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now. — Ione Skye

I learned long ago that I couldn't stop it, but if I began to believe the stories, I would become as lost as they expected; I refused to let that happen. So instead, I had developed the ability to tune out the ugliness and bring beauty into focus. If that part of my soul remained dominant, the darker side of me could not advance. — Mary Lindsey

He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go;
More nor less to others paying
Than by self-offences weighing.
Shame to him whose cruel striking
Kills for faults of his own liking!
Twice treble shame on Angelo,
To weed my vice and let his grow!
O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
How may likeness made in crimes,
Making practise on the times,
To draw with idle spiders' strings
Most ponderous and substantial things!
Craft against vice I must apply:
With Angelo to-night shall lie
His old betrothed but despised;
So disguise shall, by the disguised,
Pay with falsehood false exacting,
And perform an old contracting. — William Shakespeare

Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same--the image of God. — John Of Kronstadt

Each instant is another chance. — Anvar Eshov