Beltway Builders Quotes

#1. You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die, and she by God wasn't going to waste her time like that.

Abigail Strom

#2. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds.

Haruki Murakami

#3. An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#4. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

Walter Scott

#5. If my wife finds comfort in trite Gispy homilies, I have no objection to your offering them. However, if you ever kiss her again, no matter how platonic the fashion, I'll make a eunuch of you.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously.

Charles Foster Johnson

#7. For the first time he became aware of the profound silence of the place, insulated by stone and metal from the noise of the street outside. It gave the mosque a sympathetic air, as if it could speak but chose instead to listen.

G. Willow Wilson

#8. I do this! Time after time after time! I do all this shit for other people! And then I wake up and I'm empty! I have nothing!

Matthew Quick

#9. Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.

Peter C Bunnell

#10. Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Gordon W. Allport