Israel Putnam Quotes

#1. Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth.

Christian D. Larson

#2. Beware: I'm unafraid to host a big spoiler party--a novel that can be truly "spoiled" by the summary of its plot is a novel that was already spoiled by that plot.

James Wood

#3. I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

C. K. Williams

#4. The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.

Francois Hollande

#5. Poets ... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

Archibald MacLeish

#6. When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.

Alice Dreger

#7. I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me.

Muhammad Yunus

#8. The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

Ovid

#9. A good horse is a man's best friend in time of danger.

Israel Putnam

#10. Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

Israel Putnam

#11. A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked.

Shannon L. Alder