Ethyl Burroughs Quotes

#1. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

Adam Smith

#2. We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up?

Thor Heyerdahl

#3. It was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

Jodi Picoult

#5. It is sort of remarkable to me how much grief can well up when a pet dies, until one remembers that they are in fact people, who just happen not to be human.

John Scalzi

#6. And I'll know my song well before I start singing

Bob Dylan

#7. Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

Soren Kierkegaard

#8. You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

Conor Oberst

#9. We are not born to survive. Only to live.

W.S. Merwin

#10. It was massive. A blurting, busting, backfire! A flabbergasting, fire-breathing, flub-explosion! A propelling, paint-stripping, prison-break!

Ferguson Fartworthy

#11. In a way, I am what they say I am. I am a hard-ass. I'm hard to get along with. Most of the time I'm moody. All that's true. I got no problem with people saying that.

Randy Moss

#12. Don't. I understand. I knew going into this that a story about us was also going to be a story about the two of you. And it should be. He was a big part of your life, and I'm okay with your history. It made you who you are. And I happen to be in love with who you are.

S.C. Stephens

#13. My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes

Fiona Apple

#14. Understanding a situation doesn't always make it easier

Colleen Hoover