Inquests In Great Quotes

#1. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time. What

Herman Melville

#2. On your deathbed, in the twilight of your life, it will not be all the risks you took that you will regret the most.

Robin S. Sharma

#3. The folks in this small town had made their last stand at the Piggly Wiggly.

Bobby Adair

#4. Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.

Jostein Gaarder

#5. I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

Rand Paul

#6. I remember when I was young, there was an older boy who was physically and mentally disabled. He had a speech impediment and walked with difficulty. The boys used to make fun of him. They teased and taunted him until sometimes he would cry.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#7. There is no harm in not forgetting. Think of a small ship amid storming waters - raging and cruel; who forgets that? Not the man who was rescued. Never the man who rescued consciously. Neither the man whose kin could not be rescued. Nor the man who decided not to rescue.

Ashfaq Saraf

#8. Without Ruth's partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team.

Billy Graham

#9. Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

Anna Journey

#10. If this is the last piece of heaven I get before I'm dragged down to hell, then I'll gladly take it.

Mia Sheridan

#11. Axum might have been her first love. He might have part of her heart forever. But she's a different woman now, and that woman chose you. You've got the upper hand because you're here. If you still want her, fight for her. If you're not willing to do that, you don't deserve her." Using

Kirsten Beyer

#12. To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Julian Barnes

#14. People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Sociological
Review revealed that atheists are the least trusted group in
America - less trusted, even, than homosexuals. It makes sense at least we trust the homosexuals with our hair.

Stephen Colbert