Loooong Ago Quotes

#1. Some people just think utopians are idiots who are imagining rivers of candy and not really engaging with the world's ills, and sometimes that's surely the case, but I think that imagining the perfected society is a way of expressing your disgust with the current state of affairs.

Christine Jennings

#2. Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

Juliana Hatfield

#3. I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.

Sean Young

#4. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

Albert Camus

#5. There was a hint of something lingering in her mind. A memory, perhaps, although Jo could only catch the flavor of a few remaining tendrils.

Lisa Graff

#6. We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

Tess Gerritsen

#7. Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Louis L'Amour

#8. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Lord Kelvin

#9. Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.

Benjamin Jowett

#10. We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

Adyashanti

#11. I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

Michelle Williams

#12. I still love the preparation of the game. I think that actually helps you heal faster, still being around it; it keeps you motivated. It keeps you engaged, and I want to be around my teammates.

Jon Beason

#13. She uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. People like to say they've given somebody a choice when what they're really saying is 'do this my way.

Nora Roberts