Shallenberger Second Quotes

#1. famously, Scots are very interested in their past, real or invented, but who else is?

Jenny Wormald

#2. Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Miller

#4. I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.

Evelyn Waugh

#5. She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

Jerzy Kosinski

#6. It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens up to is merely a more encompassing form of finitude (another captivating illusion or delusion).

Kenny Smith

#8. The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

John Muir

#9. What I mean is, it reminded me of one of the happiest moments of childhood, before broken wrists and purpling bruises and nasty names hissed when my mother's back was turned. Before Who do you think you are? You're ugly. You're nobody.

Nova Ren Suma

#10. I can feel other people's emotions. Their life force, maybe? Something. It's uncomfortable but in a way that's hard to define.

Jenny Lawson

#11. Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

Reif Larsen

#12. When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behind the wheel.

Bam Margera

#13. Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.

Khaled Mashal

#14. Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

George Washington