Exemplum Literary Quotes

#1. If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.

Lawrence Welk

#2. Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."

Henry Van Dyke

#3. The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Saint Augustine

#4. You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things.

Debbie Stabenow

#5. You have not failed until you quit trying.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#6. Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot. But try to get me off and they'd be wild with righteous indignation. Oh, how I hate them all!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. In climbing, there was always a fraction of a second between the security of being locked in and the freedom of an actual rappel.

Paul Aertker

#8. Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Martin Amis

#9. One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Bryant McGill

#10. Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

John O. Brennan

#11. President Obama recently said that his day is all about politics, so in the mornings he likes to watch ESPN. So if you get the feeling he's repeating himself every half hour, that's where he learned it from.

Jimmy Fallon