Hobnailed Quotes

#1. In a badass, beer-glass brawl, would you rather have an academic liberal covering your back or a hobnailed redneck?

James Lee Burke

#2. I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,
I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.

Frances Power Cobbe

#3. History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Voltaire

#4. Even though the method of 'Harvest' was a historical novel, its intentions were that of a modern novel. I'm asking you to think about land being seized in Brazil by soya barons. It's also a novel about immigration.

Jim Crace

#5. Help someone when they're in trouble, and they'll remember you when they're in trouble again. - FORTUNE COOKIE

Darynda Jones

#6. I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen.

Ciara

#7. With a true friend one experiences something in the nature of spiritual enjoyment?

Nikolai Gogol

#8. As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

Elena Delle Donne

#9. I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

Jimmy Carl Black

#10. You look like hell. (Sebastian)
Yeah, well, it's hard to look good when you're being tortured. (Damos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#12. Yes, it's worth it. The pain of sorrow is terrible and hard to bear, but the joy of love makes it worthwhile. p123

Kate Sherwood

#13. My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.

Jennifer Aniston

#14. A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

Juliana Hatfield

#15. The hefty price for accepting information uncritically is that we go through life unaware that what we've accepted as impossible may in fact be quite possible.

Ellen J. Langer

#16. Local politicians of color said children and tomorrow. They said digital and democracy and history.

Jonathan Franzen

#17. Trust me, change can happen in much less time given the right circumstances. Hell, sometimes the people we're closest to change and there's nothing we can do to bring them back.

Lexi Blake