Caliper Quotes

#1. My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has rent the soul of Western man ever since the famous philosopher Descartes ripped body loose from mind and turned the very soul into a ghost that haunts its own house.

Walker Percy

#2. The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized ...

Gore Vidal

#3. I am not throwing away my shot.
I am not throwing away my shot.
I'm just like my country.
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry.
And I am not throwing away my shot.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#4. I love to cry. It's great.

Ansel Elgort

#5. You possess an intuitive intelligence so powerful it can
help you heal, relieve stress, and find emotional freedom

Judith Orloff

#6. Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.

Muhammad

#7. I can point you in a certain direction, maybe draw you a map and give you some ideas. I can't carry you where you need to go.

Eric Greitens

#8. I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.

Edwidge Danticat

#9. We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

Ma Jun

#10. Being a mum is the best thing that has ever been given to me in my life.

Emilia Fox

#11. I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.

Ric Ocasek

#12. Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.

Henning Mankell

#13. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17

Beth Moore

#14. Let's get rid of those fucking ghosts once and for all, Proph. We tried burying them, but that never works. So how about we just set them free?"
"And let them go into the light, Carol Anne?"
"And just like that, you're a goddamned bastard again." But Tom was smiling as he said it.

S.E. Jakes

#15. As she spoke, as she looked out over the garden, Pilar ran a hand absently over Maddy's hair, left
it lying on her shoulder. The gesture made everything inside the girl go warm. And made her sigh.
What's wrong?

Nora Roberts

#16. Don't mind us, Shay." Mason flashed him a smile. "We're just a bunch of wild animals.
"No joke." Dax flexed his arms.

Andrea Cremer