Claws Crossed Quotes

#1. The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.
[The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.]

George Herbert

#3. Black, scorched scars crossed the battlefield as if a god's claws had swept down to join the slaughter.

Steven Erikson

#4. At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

Hanif Kureishi

#5. They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.

Jeremy Hunt

#6. ... Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oorsels that it isnae aw totally pointless.

Irvine Welsh

#7. A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

Sally Schneider

#8. At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.

Brett Hoebel

#9. In the actual world
the painful kingdom of time and place
dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

Doris Lessing

#11. Democracy works better when we recognize every voice matters.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#12. I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#13. Whenever I learn a new word, I feel strong, for I discover a new world.
Whenever I share a word, I feel weak: I give away a sparkle of my dreams. (Soar)

Soar

#14. I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give
others the impression that they are.

Edith Head

#15. Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Art Garfunkel

#16. Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Thomas Overbury

#17. Fingers you, claws me, crossed hoping Dad sees it that way.

Jazz Feylynn