Thawer Fund Quotes & Sayings

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song. — John Ruskin

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it. — Tom Tancredo

You are just..." Imasu took a deep, frustrated breath. "You seem always...ephemeral, like a glittering shallow stream that passes the whole world by. Not something that will stay, not something that will last." He made a small, helpless gesture, as if letting something go, as if Magnus had wanted to be let go. "Not someone permanent."

That made Magnus laugh, suddenly and helplessly, and he threw his head back. He'd learned this lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

Laughter had always come easily to Magnus, and it helped, but not enough. — Cassandra Clare

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it. — Anton Yelchin

It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s. — Naomi Klein

Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it. — Joe Rogan

In pop culture news, Lady Gaga got married. And yes, she was wearing white meat. — David Letterman

Rafe was trying to convince an older couple that they needed an extra toilet. — James Patterson

I am a geologist. — Robert Ballard

The bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain. — Rebecca West

To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s. — Frank Gaffney

I'm not very domestic. For years my family thought mold was a frosting. — Martha Bolton

The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of man's life are to be ordered. Therefore it inevitably inclines the will to violate God's law. — Thomas Merton

Damn. That was stupid, wasn't it? We nearly got killed over ice cream. — Rachel Caine