Wollaston Lake Lodge Quotes & Sayings

Language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's. It becomes 'one's owns' only when the speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a natural and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own. — Mikhail Bakhtin

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Posted over many secrets-closets: "The truth will set us free. — Christopher Lincoln

[ ... ]when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope
and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances[ ... ] — John Newton

I didn't go to prom because I was too punk. — Shamir

The more people I am able to help, the more people are willing to help others. The more followers we have, the closer we are to a perfect world. — Akilnathan Logeswaran

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. — Robert M. Pirsig

Conscience is a thousand swords. — William Shakespeare

Pictures pass me in long review,
Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us
hence I loved them until they loved me. — Dorothy Parker

Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow. — Jon C. Madonna

Say it."
My eyes squeeze shut at the desperate way he murmurs it. Like he's afraid I won't.
I run my fingertips along the arm that's draped over my middle - hard with muscle and yet holding me so reverently, so protectively - and tell him, "I love you. Even when I hate you, I still love you. — Kelley R. Martin

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion — PZ Myers

We are too small (compared to the universe), but capable of doing very big things" Stephen Hawking when studying in Cambridge. — Katerina Papanikolaou