Forfend Etymology Quotes

#1. One of the good things about being twelve or younger is that you tend to believe that you'll live forever.

Dean Koontz

#2. You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Mark Takano

#3. The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

William H. Macy

#5. Could you double-check the envelope?

Martin Scorsese

#6. The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

Friedrich Schiller

#7. I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you is what you want to hear.

Robert Penn Warren

#8. Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.

W. C. Brownell

#9. But if I were honest, or if I were at least to bump into the limits of my honesty, I would have to admit that I knew exactly how this love would end from the moment it began. The loss was probably before it was possible.

Maggie Nelson

#10. In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts.

James Hansen

#11. My parents and my family really tried to maintain as much of a normal environment as possible. When I went home, it wasn't Keshia Knight Pulliam the actress, the glitz, the glamour. It was Keshia the daughter. Oldest of four children, who washed the dishes and did everything she was supposed to do.

Keshia Knight Pulliam