Nettlesome Quotes

#1. Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.

Ashley Rickards

#3. I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.

Jay Baruchel

#4. Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

Robertson Davies

#5. There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

Bill McKibben

#6. Never tell your problems to anyone ... 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Lou Holtz

#7. I wish ... I wish I were dead ... "
"And what use would that be to anyone?

J.K. Rowling

#8. The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.

William Shakespeare

#9. I was feeling like a rock in a stream with the water passing by me, not fully engaging in life with this heavy burden hanging over me.

Lisa Bonavita

#10. I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

Carl Paladino

#11. It is not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity. LXXX

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

Dan Greenburg

#13. Looking at a sea bird flapping its wings against the full moon I wish I could grow wings and fly away from everything and be free. I wish I could lose myself in the vast ocean and float away from all this pain in my heart.

Monica James

#14. Windows were broken. Where not broken they were boarded up, had been for years: the rust from nailheads had written long, sad farewells down the salt-silvered planks.

Joseph Hansen