Battening Quotes

#1. I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps ... It just feels right.

David Hobson

#2. I am happy with my Bangladesh.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

#3. There is no serving God without serving man

Sunday Adelaja

#4. The poor homosexuals
they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

Pat Buchanan

#5. Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Francis Bacon

#6. Things only have as much power as you give them

Nicky Hope

#7. The guy had literally been through hell and back. Even when he wasn't trying, he made the toilets explode. What would Percy be like if he wanted to act scary?

Rick Riordan

#8. A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

Paul Craig Roberts

#9. The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised.

Michael Oakeshott

#10. We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

Dean Cavanagh

#11. If we dissolve without a trace, will the real world even care?

Owl City

#12. As the thick liquid slips down her throat and into her belly, Alba starts to feel warm and soft, as if the kitchen has just hugged her. And, after a few minutes she isn't scared to tell the truth anymore. At least a little bit of truth.

Menna Van Praag