Mauras Knot Quotes

#1. It's my husband. I think - I think he's a zombie."
I smiled. "Believe it or not, I get this one a lot. Can you describe his behavior? Why do you think he's a zombie?"
She huffed. "He doesn't do anything! He sits on the sofa all day watching TV and that's it.

Carrie Vaughn

#2. A Pap smear would give a woman a chance to receive preventive care [and] greatly decrease the likelihood of her ever developing cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#3. Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Wendell Phillips

#4. There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

Agnes Repplier

#5. Your silence was effortless and windless, like the silence of clouds or plants. All silence is the recognition of a mystery. There was much about you that seemed mysterious. A

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. If it is the case that our activities depend on how we ourselves see them, what we believe about them, then if we have crazy, fuzzy ideas about teaching, we will be likely to do crazy and fuzzy things in its name.

Paul Q. Hirst

#7. The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

James M. Barrie

#9. For hundreds, even thousands, of years, people completely failed to see that variations in the objective exchange-value of money could be induced by monetary factors. They tried to explain all variations of prices exclusively from the commodity side.

Ludwig Von Mises

#10. Maybe life is just easier if you're a little goofy ...

Christopher Moore

#11. Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all.

Zora Neale Hurston