Telegrams And Railroads Quotes & Sayings

Wheat is blond in the Steppe, yellow in the Prairie. Algae in the labs is many different brownish greens. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men. — Euripides

And God tries to gently drive the words of Caussade from the knowing of my head to the bleeding of the heart: You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize that your complaints about them are nothing more nor less than blasphemies - though that never occurs to you. Nothing happens to you except by the will of God, and yet [God's] beloved children curse it because they do not know it for what it is.1 A — Ann Voskamp

Knowledge is never too dear. — Francis Walsingham

His laugh & chocolatey eyes captured me, making my skin grow warmer. — Ashley Stoyanoff

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell. — William Osler

I love France. The French respect your privacy. — Margaux Hemingway

In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all. They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the decent and honorable code that makes us care for creatures who are entirely at our mercy. Especially within the last two hundred years, we've come to apply an industrial mind-set to the use of animals, too often viewing them as if they were nothing but articles of commerce and the raw material of science, agriculture, and wildlife management. Here, as in other pursuits, human ingenuity has a way of outrunning human conscience, and some things we do only because we can
forgetting to ask whether we should. — Wayne Pacelle

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact. — Brad Meltzer

I'm woefully one-track-minded. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle but too powerful to escape. — Ally Condie