Stroman Middle School Quotes

#1. Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#2. Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Anonymous

#3. What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck?

Anthony Bourdain

#4. Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

Henry Rollins

#5. Love must wait; it must break one's bones.

James Salter

#6. I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle.

Doris Lessing

#7. A few lantern bugs were coming out, their little lights blinking on and off. The green water was warm as tears, but there was no salt in it. It tasted of summer and mud and growing things.

George R R Martin

#8. To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe
to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it
is a wonder beyond words.

Joanna Macy

#9. Then the coxswain called out, 'Ready all!' Joe turned and faced the rear of the boat, slid his seat forward, sank the white blade of his oar into the oil-black water, tensed his muscles, and waited for the command that would propel him forward into the glimmering darkness.

Daniel James Brown

#10. Ignore you, sweetheart? I think it would be easier to stop breathing.
-Vasili

Johanna Lindsey

#11. But the original was there as well - more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side

Sarah Dessen