Manchineel Wood Quotes

#1. Humans long to cross the sea, to visit strange lands and see wonders undreamed of. Cats - well, most cats - do not.

Lisa Martin

#2. A math teacher's least favorite thing to hear from a student is "I get the concept, but I couldn't do the problems." Though the student doesn't know it, this is shorthand for "I don't get the concept.

Jordan Ellenberg

#3. I just hadn't wanted to admit it, because admitting it meant acknowledging the possibility that the odds might be in my favor. And that possibility was terrifying.

Robyn Schneider

#4. All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists
Of twain of things: of bodies and of void
In which they're set, and where they're moved around.

Lucretius

#5. Each time I did something to push him away, I was terrified it would work.

Jamie McGuire

#6. When the owner of the pig arrived he found a scrawny and bloodcovered white boychild standing on what was left of his property sawing at it with a knife and hauling on the skin and cursing. The dirty half flayed pig looked like something recovered from a shallow grave.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. The greater part of violence that humans have inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or the mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens in the service of the collective ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#8. The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

Gail Sheehy

#9. No time like the immediate, for tomorrow we may be dead, serving life and God's people no longer. It's in now we must take action to become the heroes of the morn'.

E.J. Squires

#10. How cool would it be if differences were celebrated? And the more different you were, the better?

Susane Colasanti

#11. And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Oliver Goldsmith

#12. Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

Karl Hess

#13. Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

David F. Swensen

#14. I've always been a little homemaker.

Amy Winehouse