Fiducial Markers Quotes

#1. We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#2. Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.

Jonathan Haidt

#3. The principle here is that a new generation owes a measure of thanks to every member of the previous generation. Our

Amor Towles

#4. Dances without purpose have false starts and stops.

Hanya Holm

#5. The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

Horace

#6. Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

Simon Callow

#7. I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

Jami Attenberg

#8. But it was one thing to be cold over distance, another entirely when they were in your same zip code.

Sarah Dessen

#9. Fear is an irrational emotion that floats from object to object like a helium balloon that you touch with your fingertips.

James Lee Burke

#10. I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Stanley Baldwin

#11. Defend what's left. You can have fifty men."
"Fifty! That's not enough ... "
"Forty," I snarled, "and if you lose the fort I'll cut your kidneys out and eat them."
We were at war.

Bernard Cornwell