Zoological Survey Quotes & Sayings

When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them. — Richard Moe

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped. — Kurt Tucholsky

Everything that is not given is lost. — Mother Teresa

Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit. — Douglas Alexander

Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh? — Mata Amritanandamayi

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
— Henry Moore

I grinned at him. 'Jealous?'
He grinned right back. 'That's a trick question. If I say yes you'll accuse me of being paranoid and unreasonable, and if I say no you'll make some defensive crack about how I don't think you're worth getting jealous over.'
This is what I got for hooking up with a lawyer. — Carrie Vaughn

We sleep together in the dark but confuse light with love. — Rae Armantrout

I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. — Ann Voskamp

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now. — Anna Quindlen

Heaven preserve us! what a hotch-potch!" cried Hubert. "Is that what they are doing nowadays? I very seldom read a novel, but when I glance into one, I'm sure to find some such stuff as that! Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people's imagination. Common life - I don't say it's a vision of bliss, but it's better than that! Their stories are like the underside of a carpet, - nothing but the stringy grain of the tissue - a muddle of figures without shape and flowers without color. When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust; I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement. Your clergyman here with his Romish sweetheart must be a very pretty fellow. Why didn't he marry her first and convert her afterwards? Isn't a clergyman after all, before all, a man? I — Henry James