Glass Mole Quotes

#1. Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like ducking glass mole.

Cassandra Clare

#2. There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. it sometimes happened that you would, in the middle of your exertions, be discouraged by the absurdity of what you were in the process of doing: athletic exertion was vanity. You engaged in it less for the joy of the act than in order to exhaust yourself.

Edouard Leve

#4. Wisdom begins with reverence for God.
No God, no wisdom (witness your local university).

Dennis Prager

#5. Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

Walter Lippmann

#6. They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing ... I bought the food for everyone.

Emilie Schindler

#7. Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.

Harvey MacKay

#8. I do wish you'd break the careless habit of using the word American as if you had stolen it from the rest of us. Use norteamericano, because we Cubans and Mexicans and Uruguayans, we're also Americans.

James A. Michener

#9. Bill Clinton is the only ex-president who hasn't planned his own funeral. But, in his defense, in the past he has said he wants to be buried next to Hillary. I guess he figures he never slept next to her when they were alive, might as well try it now that they're dead.

Jay Leno

#10. Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Camille Desmoulins

#11. Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.

William Dean Howells

#12. The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.

James Cook

#13. Instar implies something both celestial and ingrown, something heavenly and disastrous, and perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.

Rebecca Solnit