John Woodman Quotes

#1. How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

Emil Cioran

#2. It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.

Timothy B. Tyson

#3. Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

John Milton

#4. Short-term, hot fling staying at your house?"
She couldn't help the smile. "Not lately. As far as I remember. If there's one there now, it's because he found out where I hide the key.

Rachael Herron

#5. How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?

Pawan Mishra

#6. Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Edsger Dijkstra

#7. Craftsmanship, his Uncle Cornelius had once told him, was just a fancy word for what happened when labor met love.

Dennis Lehane

#8. There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it.

Megan Hart

#9. The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#10. The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. You may have it," he said. His voice was very low, but he met my eyes straight on. "All of it. Anything that was ever done to me. If ye wish it, if it helps ye, I will live it through again.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.

Walter Scott

#13. I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.

Karen Russell

#14. [The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.

Alex Epstein

#15. Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

Al McGuire

#16. Upon learning of the young man's interest in a physics book, Lindemann, a number theorist, abruptly ended the interview, saying, In that case you are completely lost to mathematics.

Leonard Mlodinow

#17. I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." (L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

John Eldredge

#18. If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.

Alister E. McGrath