Knudtsen Post Quotes

#1. In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#2. Why do I have to earn it by being good? Don't you feel like bragging?"
"It's better when you beg," he said, his voice low. "It's always better when you beg.

Robyn Carr

#3. When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

Ben Chandler

#4. You might at least believe that I know honor-
honor and debt.

Cassandra Clare

#5. Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?

Bill Parcells

#6. Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.

William Stanley Jevons

#7. Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.

Victoria Schwab

#8. Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

Joss Whedon

#9. I'm not sure what we're doing, to be perfectly honest
but nothing's on fire anymore. And I feel like maybe we've solved something. Even though this is probably just a new problem.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. The flesh was falling from the bones of those I loved, and all the mountain flowers were crushed and broken.

Gabriel Byrne

#12. Was all uniformity; - he was systematical, and, like all systematic reasoners, he would move both heaven and earth, and twist and torture every thing in nature to support his hypothesis.

Laurence Sterne

#13. At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.

Rajiv Joseph