Rottenly Quotes

#1. My birth was managed so rottenly that my mother had eventually to have a hysterectomy, after which she was ill off & on till she dies for obscure reasons when I was just 7.

Louis MacNeice

#2. As a songwriter, I think that comes with the territory. The older you get, you like to say it doesn't matter, but you care what people think about what you do.

Five For Fighting

#3. God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#4. And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

David Almond

#5. This was pretty much when the Guards behind me decided they were going to try to make me do this. And that is when I decided I was going to be hitting someone again.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. The classes that wash most are those that work least.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes from doing it, as men by sleeping lose the knowledge of sleep.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

Esther Dyson

#9. Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.

Chet Faker

#11. The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the greatest that have ever lived have been contented, happy, and honored while in the pursuit of humble trades.

Elias Lyman Magoon

#12. There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

Wendell Berry

#13. The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'.

Simone Weil

#14. The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.

Ally Condie