Lariat Quotes

#1. We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

Richard J. Daley

#2. Craig Johnson is not what you might expect . . . and yet he is everything you might expect. He is a man of letters and a man of his word. A laureate with a lariat, if you will. In short, Craig is the spring that feeds the very deep well that is Walt Longmire.

Craig Johnson

#3. If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

George Saunders

#4. How can you think that? How can you believe God would let us go through this hell?" "Because you have to think of the alternative. If it hadn't happened the way it did, you'd have been on that plane. You'd really be gone now. There'd be no second chances. There'd be no Reed.

Elisabeth Naughton

#5. In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

John McLaughlin

#6. Life is like a candle, you must light it to see through the darkness.

Thomas F. Shubnell

#7. Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

Theo James

#8. You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

Tina Fey

#9. Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.

Pat Ament

#10. I am concussed, I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

John Green

#11. You have never been married? You are a spinster?" Diana laughed. "Why, she can't be above seventeen or eighteen years old, St. John," said she. "I am near nineteen: but I am not married. No.

Charlotte Bronte

#12. Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Joseph Addison

#13. People are not hungry just for bread, they are hungry for love.

Mother Teresa

#14. People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Irving Kristol

#15. To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

Alec Waugh

#16. On 24 August 1572, French Catholics who stressed the importance of good deeds attacked communities of French Protestants who highlighted God's love for humankind.

Yuval Noah Harari