Lidberg Survey Quotes

#1. SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. What on earth could you possibly be confused about, idiot?" "Because,

Chris Colfer

#3. Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad.

Zicheng Hong

#4. The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

Tom DeMarco

#5. We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Charles R. Swindoll

#6. Absentia. Assuming he comes back alive, they will force him into a shameful

Rick Riordan

#7. There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Ronald Reagan

#8. There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.

Evgeny Morozov

#9. Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. Ninety-nine per cent of the human race, no matter how smart they are, will do the convenient thing instead of the wise thing, and kid themselves into thinking they can somehow escape the consequences.

Poul Anderson

#11. You inherit white heather, a bee's wing,
Two suicides, the family wolves,
Hours of blankness.

Sylvia Plath

#12. I canna look at ye asleep without wanting to wake ye, Sassenach." His hand cupped my breast, gently now. "I suppose I find myself lonely without ye.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his administration's political agenda.

Tom Rice

#14. Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

Dorothea Brande