Territorializing Quotes & Sayings

-No, this is no begining.
-Then an end?
-End is a gloomy word. — Robert Frost

I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house. — Dave Winfield

I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once. — Terry Pratchett

But if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends are often equally bloody. We're familiar with political love that ends in tyranny, where a ruler's firm conviction that he has the true interests of his nation at heart ends up lending him the confidence to murder without qualms (and 'for their own good') all who disagree with him. Romantic lovers are similarly inclined to vent their frustration on dissenters and heretics. — Alain De Botton

Time is a structured perception towards observable changes. — Toba Beta

There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding. — Kim Coles

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. — Theodore Roosevelt

A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic. — May Sarton

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying. — Ben Carson

This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It contradicts everything in my experience, which says: God dwells where I dwell. Period. — Nancy Mairs

CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don't remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me laugh. Do you know which one I mean? — Jen Campbell