The Monkey's Paw Sergeant Major Morris Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life. — Lysa TerKeurst

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other. — Tim Berners-Lee

One day they'll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones. — Turcois Ominek

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice. — Matthew Henry

Few people become assholes reluctantly. — Geoffrey Nunberg

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can. — David Simon

When you die, you'll be wearing your white dress with red roses, and your hair will be long and falling around your shoulders. When they shoot you, up on your damn roof or walking alone on the street, your blood will look like another red rose on your dress, and no one will notice, not even you when you bleed out for Mother Russia. — Paullina Simons

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist's job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives. — Edward Teller

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence. — Jonathan Swift

Curiosity also makes a great student. — Gemma Malley

She is waiting. Each spring the hard rains come and the creek rises and quickens, and more of the bank peels off, silting the water brown ad bringing to light another layer of dark earth, Decades pass. She is patient, shelled inside the blue tarp. Each spring the water laps closer, paling roots, loosening stones, scuffing and smoothing. She is waiting and one day a bit of blue appears in the bank and then more blue. The rain pauses and the sun appears but she is ready now and the bank trembles a moment and heaves the stands of tarp unfurl and she spills into the stream and is free. Bits of bone gather in an eddy, form a brief necklace. The current moves on toward the sea. — Ron Rash