Misbegotten Son Quotes

#1. You idiot! You misbegotten son of a jinn's meeting with a jackass, may the grave of your maternal grandmother be defiled by the dung of ten thousand syphilitic she-camels!

Anne McCaffrey

#2. Those who love most, see most.

Hannah Hurnard

#3. As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world.

David McCullough

#4. The problem with many Jesus freaks is that we claim to 'build our house on a rock,' but when a storm comes we have such confidence in the building that all our focus is on the house. As if surety comes from construction, not from the foundation.

Anna Broadway

#5. Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Lynn Margulis

#6. With the final onset of dark the iron cold locked down and the boy by now was shuddering violently. No moon rose beyond the murk and there was nowhere to go.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn't preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt.

Karen White

#8. Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.

James Hunter

#9. Prayer is an act of praise and worship to God

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.

Michael Haneke

#11. I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.

Erich Ludendorff

#12. Sara!" she cried, aghast. "Mamma Sara!" She was aghast because the attic was so bare and ugly and seemed so far away from all the world. Her short legs had seemed to have been mounting hundreds of stairs.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#13. But I can't force everything into the arrangement I'd like. I can't use denial to make everything simple.

Jael McHenry

#14. Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

Quentin Tarantino

#15. I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.

Ian Millar

#16. There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.

Michael Lewis