Octagonal House Quotes

#1. So this was her kingdom: an octagonal house, a roomful of books, and a bear.

Marian Engel

#2. All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous.

George Berkeley

#3. Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

Robert Musil

#4. Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

Dave Obey

#5. People who worry about me
worry about their conscience.
Petra Hermans
Babaji
September 6, 2016

Petra Hermans

#6. When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. The furious love of God knows no shadow of alteration or change. It is reliable. And always tender.

Brennan Manning

#8. From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

Joel Salatin

#9. She smiled and was suddenly young again. How does it feel to know where you are going?

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom.

Harrison Scott Key