Troy Davis Quotes & Sayings

When the situation is serious, don't be funny; and when the situation is funny, don't be serious! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Follows here the strict receipt
For that sauce to faint meat,
Named idleness, which many eat
By preference, and call it sweet:
First watch for morsels, like a hound
Mix well with buffets, stir them round
With good thick oil of flattered,
And froth with mean self-lauding lies.
Serve warm: the vessels you must choose
To keep it in are dead men's shoes. — George Eliot

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth. — Jennifer Aniston

May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls. — Troy Anthony Davis

It feels great to recall great times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me. — Troy Anthony Davis

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. — Henry Fielding

On the spectrum of creative work, the difference between the mediocre and the good is vast. Mediocrity is, however, still on the spectrum; you can move from mediocre to good in increments. The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something. Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing. — Austin Kleon

This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent. — Antonin Scalia

Ideas in politics are often intuition fancy dress. — Rick Perlstein

Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter. — Geoffrey Zakarian

This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh. — Geraldine Brooks