Waldroops Quotes & Sayings

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them — Franz Kafka

Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before. — Germaine Greer

Is she sad? she asked.
No, honey. She's lived-in. — Marisha Pessl

She thought not so much of what had happened as of how she could describe it. — E. M. Forster

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. — Napoleon Bonaparte

What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it. — William Lloyd Garrison

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito ... — Sherman Alexie

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors. — Richard Dawkins

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience. — Martin Luther

Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient. — Jeff Bezos

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. — Robert G. Ingersoll

I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing. — James Mercer

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams. — Thomas Carlyle