Traversier Quotes & Sayings

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two. — Danny Bonaduce

There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time. — Terry Pratchett

Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this. — Terence McKenna

Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing — Paul Kalanithi

I read from the Gospels, about the disciples. They reminded me of us. They had Jesus right there, like we have His words, and they still said and did stupid things. But Jesus loved them. After he was raised from the dead, one morning he made them breakfast, because they'd been out all night fishing. That story amazed me. You'd think dying on a Roman cross was enough, — Jill Penrod

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent. — Susan Rice

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed! — Neal A. Maxwell

This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. — George Washington

And he was beginning to feel that discouragement which is engendered by a life of repetition, when no interest guides nor expectation sustains it. — Gustave Flaubert

( a court officer's assessment of a particularly obnoxious young defendant...)

"His mother shoulda ate him while his head was still soft."

This kills me every time... — Paddy Green

If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them ... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find. — Alfred Whitney Griswold

Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole? — Voltaire