Hebdomadal Etymology Quotes

#1. I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.

Kinky Friedman

#2. So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#3. I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

Richard Dawkins

#4. Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.

Helen Wells

#5. Not a god's chosen, but a god's cursed. That's what we all are.

Victoria Aveyard

#6. Beware of fascist feminism.

Hannah Wilke

#7. Elysium must wait, Ariston thought before his eyes closed.

Sasha Summers

#8. A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

Mark Twain

#9. It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them.

Eraldo Banovac

#10. In time you will see that you were exactly where you were supposed to be.

L.J. Vanier

#11. You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey ... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward Trueness at last.

Vernon Howard

#12. As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.

John Burnside

#13. Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

David Mitchell

#14. I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.

H.G.Wells

#15. Breakups usually don't happen down by the river with beautiful lighting. The moment you realize your relationship may be over might happen in Aisle 11 of Rite-Aid and the person you're with has disregarded your feelings and your needs by bringing you the wrong toothbrush again for the fourth time.

Jay Duplass