Trogon Quotes & Sayings

Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace. — Joseph Sittler

The usual duty of the "intellectual" is to argue for complexity and to insist that phenomena in the world of ideas should not be sloganized or reduced to easily repeated formulae. — Christopher Hitchens

Clothes are incredibly symbolic. — Robin Givhan

Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying. — Willard Van Orman Quine

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while. — Jens Lekman

Rappers are in danger
Who will use wits to be a remainder? — O.C.

It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful. — Ricky Schroder

Do you know how beautiful you are?' I shook my head 'I'm not. But you make me fell like I am.' I wanted to be beautiful. To him. For him. I didn't care how anybody else saw me. Only Ethan. — Ellen Hopkins

Take accessible to mean / acceptable, accommodating, openly servile. — Geoffrey Hill

You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering. — Christina Romer

Who hasn't had the 'I went to school/work in my underwear' dream? — Lisa McMann

Bad men with smiles are the most dangerous kind. — C.M. Hayden

All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity. — Desire-Joseph Mercier

In 'Leverage,' I don't really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an insurance investigator. — Timothy Hutton