Tuesdays With Moorie Quotes & Sayings

Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail. — Theodore Roosevelt

I need to be doing something, because doing nothing is just as harmful as facing danger head-on. — David Levithan

One can make more enemies as a female with a brain I think. — Bette Davis

Bad Cyclops Lady!" he bellowed. "General Tyson says GO AWAY! — Rick Riordan

I'm big in Russia, but no one's quite sure why. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Well, life is like that sometimes", Isabel said. "We learn things too late, and then we don't get to use them. — John Scalzi

The word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless — Mitch Albom

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean. — Tillie Olsen

The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science — George Santayana

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed. — Henry James

One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation. — J.M. Coetzee