Rustics Quotes

#1. There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

H.P. Lovecraft

#2. Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason ... But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.

William Of Conches

#3. It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#4. Real rustics are not conscious of being picturesque, they do not construct bird sanctuaries, they are uninterested in any bird or animal that does not affect them directly ... The fact is that those who really have to deal with nature have no cause to be in love with it.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

Kate Atkinson

#6. I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

Dolly Parton

#7. It's nice to worry about playing golf and not all the other stuff.

John Daly

#8. Replace ropes with bullets. Hound dogs with German shepherds. A gray uniform with a bulletproof vest. Nothing is new.

Jesmyn Ward

#9. When you encounter uncomfortable situations, you can either decide to be victim or an over-comer. Always choose to be an over-comer. Grace is within our reach to be an over-comer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing it down ... I ghosted between islands of anxiety ... a fatigue that dulled my zest, decanted it. Sorrow felt like a marble coat I couldn't shed.

Diane Ackerman