Terluka Quotes & Sayings

Painfully, step by step, I learned to stare down each of my fears, conquer it, attain the hard-earned courage to go on to the next. Only then was I really free. (Eleanor Roosevelt) — Noelle Hancock

"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To endow research is merely to encourage the research for endowment; the true man of science will not be held back by poverty, and if science is of use to us, it will pay for itself." Such are but a few samples of the conflict of opinion which we find raging around us. — Karl Pearson

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet. — Ned Rorem

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature. — William Graham Sumner

Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world.
Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical.
Yes. Then they eat them — Kami Garcia

Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian. — Sherman Alexie

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers. — Alison Gopnik

More action packed than a Cardiff pub with Anne Robinson. — Jonathan Ross

I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You have one good game or season, so what? You have to have a career. — Roy Oswalt

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood. — Bev Perdue

But Ruby understands now, this inclination. This desire to slip away. To seclude herself. She understands how it feels to be an island, separate from everyone else, surrounded by nothing but water. Even when she is with people (at school, at Izzy's house, at the pool), she is aware of how alone she is. Nobody can reach her, not really. She and her mother are more similar than different, but she doesn't know how to tell her mom this. What words might explain she understands. — T. Greenwood

My kiss is my promise written in my heart with color of your love. — Debasish Mridha

Like the sun and the moon, we were always meant to be in the same sky. — Stephanie Dray

The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs. — Andrew Ross Sorkin