Vances Outdoor Quotes & Sayings

DOING THE DONKEY WORK — Alexander McCall Smith

In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified. — Carlo Rubbia

If all properly economic problems were solved once for all ... the social struggle and strife would ... [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity ... in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself. — Frank Knight

Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain. — Jon Foreman

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. — Simon Schama

The pastor is saying something about how Charlie was a free spirit. He was and he wasn't. He was free because on the inside he was tied up in knots. He lived hard because on the inside he was dying. Charlie made inner conflict look delicious. — A.S. King

The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives. — William J. Clinton

Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life. — Lorraine Heath

Don't forget:
Ruts aren't that much different ...
from graves. — John-Talmage Mathis

brown paper bags from the pharmacist. — Anita Diamant

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters. — Sarah Addison Allen

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb. — Hosea Ballou

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told. — Paolo Bacigalupi

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. — Tracy Kidder

When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a wrong direction in your life, it's only when you stop and look at things clearly that you can revise your direction and take a more proper course. Then message of Zen is that in order to find ourselves, we've got to learn to stop. — Pico Iyer