Shrikes Quotes

#1. Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

Whittaker Chambers

#2. Shrikes were songbirds; he ought to know.

Jodi Meadows

#3. I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.

David Lynch

#4. What's the matter?" said the old man. "Can't you make up your mind what kind you want?"
The kid laughed. "I want them all." He threw his hands out. "I'm learning everything!"
He opened one of the books. "Look ... geometry ... triangles ...

Jerry Spinelli

#5. I'm thinking wanting to succeed is something in my DNA; I'm not like 'I've got to succeed,' I just don't think about that. I see a silver lining in everything and I see a lesson in everything.

Queen Latifah

#6. The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is
a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

Mark Twain

#7. Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

Horace

#8. Pray God that no professional will ever captain England.

Martin Hawke

#9. Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it.

Rumi

#10. We want them to have appropriate conversations. They need to live appropriate lives. We are guarding against all inappropriate ideas and thoughts that may arise inside their criminal minds. They are reborn here, they are like little fetuses, and we must raise these fetuses. Everything is gone.

Noah Cicero

#11. The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

George B. Cortelyou

#12. Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration!

Walt Whitman

#13. We were strong. We stayed bright as lightning,
we sang loud as thunder, we moved ever forward.
We are not our failures. We are love.

La Dispute

#14. Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

Blaise Pascal