Quotes About Splitting Wood

#1. My mind was learning to work in different ways, becoming stronger. It felt the same way your body feels after a day splitting wood, or swimming, or sex. You feel exhausted, languorous, and almost Godlike.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. You people are not splitting wood, called Elnora.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#3. Simple things, simple pleasures, cutting and splitting wood, a love of the country they wanted to see more of, memories of softball fields and a girl named Amanda. There are such women as Theresa "Sam" Fitzgerald who love their men. Are content with their lives together.

James Brady

#4. Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies.
No sensible capitalist would do that.

Amory Lovins

#5. I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

Tracy Chapman

#6. I found the project to be a bit quiet (that is, dull), which may have led to the manuscript's current confabulation - a pseudo autobiography in which the speaker portrays herself as a fifteen-year-old girl/cheetah amalgam.

Julie Schumacher

#7. I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

Charles Stross

#8. You and me on a deserted tropical island where you'd be perpetually naked and I could slide into you at any moment.
I set one hand on my hip and shot him a look. Sunburned and bowlegged. Sexy.

Sylvia Day

#9. Watch this. 'Buenos Dios, Miguel.'"
A small, dark-eyed man looked up from his wood splitting, alarmed.
"They spook easy," Hobbs said.
Yes, well, people tend to do that when you come up behind them shouting, "Good God." It's just a habit, I guess.

David Sedaris

#10. Everyone has a purpose of life. My purpose of life is to serve humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#11. A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Dickens

#12. To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

Henry Cloud

#13. Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.'
'Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira
'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.

Dan Wells

#14. We tend to think of the Norman Conquest as the turning point in the history of England. But the Saxon Conquest was even more important, since it created both the reality and the idea of England itself.

David Starkey