Smotherings Quotes

#1. When it is moving on luxurious wings,
The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.

John Keats

#2. It seems that's there a ghastly Darwinian principle of economics known as the Law of Substitution which declares, more or less, that "the cheapest will survive". This has all sorts of unpleasant consequences, one of which is that non-economic values tend to be eliminated.

J.G. Farrell

#3. Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.

Hilaire Belloc

#4. And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

Simon Sinek

#6. Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#7. Introverts are actually a lot like Clark Kent
mild and unassuming much of the time, but able to swoop in and turn on our Supercharm when we choose.

Sophia Dembling

#8. Science is all about cause. Now, if really everything is connected to everything, if there really is only a oneness, everything then affects everything, and the whole idea of causality has to be revised.

Willis Harman

#9. The only person who needs to be concerned about the story of you is you.

Miguel Ruiz

#10. Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words. Quote me, Duiker, and your work's done." The bastard's right.

Steven Erikson

#11. Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

Anne Bradstreet

#12. Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.

Henry Giroux

#13. Bowen!" she cried. "Your knife!

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#14. You have not heard the last of me, Sorceress Perenelle," he sobbed. "You will never escape alive!" Fighting the wave of exhaustion that washed over her, Perenelle turned back to the ladder and pulled herself upward. "That's what everyone says," she murmured. "But I'm still alive,

Michael Scott