Sifting Device Quotes

#1. In 1970, Danvers town historian Richard B. Trask asked the property owners, Alfred and Edie Anne Hutchinson, for permission to do an archaeological dig there.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

#2. If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

Joseph Addison

#3. Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Virginia Woolf

#4. What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.

Taisen Deshimaru

#5. The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#6. Easy was for people too weak to suck it up and do what needed to be done.
And I wasn't weak. Not anymore.

Jennifer Estep

#7. If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

Woodrow Wilson

#9. The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.

Saul David

#10. If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

Marianne Williamson

#11. If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Dale Carnegie

#12. Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.

Ernest Greenwood

#13. When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

Jodi Picoult