Fingent Quotes

#1. For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures. A world not fixable; not fathomable! An unfathomable Somewhat, which is Not me; which we can work with, and live amidst
and model, miraculously in our miraculous Being, and name World.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn't matter if things aren't going the way you thought they would or if you're facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you're winning.

Mara Schiavocampo

#3. I'd definitely like to be one of the best golfers in the world, of all time.

Peter Uihlein

#4. Okay," I said. "I'll be there, but I promise to complain the entire time.

Katherine Applegate

#5. Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.

John Doolittle

#6. The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.

Nick Bantock

#7. Someone this amazing was about to get inundated by messages from needy weirdos. And he needed to be the first.

Julia Kent

#8. Once upon a time there was a little blackbird, pushed out of the nest, unwanted.

Amy Harmon

#9. I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

Laura Schlessinger

#10. Oh, Snap," I say. "What?" "Sorry. I was flashing back to 2005.

Michael Grant

#11. I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.

John L. Lewis

#12. Ceony gaped in surprise. There, wagging its little paper tail, stood a paper dog.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#13. The place to observe nature is where you are.

John Burroughs

#14. When relatives asked, "How is your life in America?" my father would answer, Nandito pa rin kami. We're still here.

Alex Tizon