Summerhayes Halibut Quotes

#1. We must not allow ourselves to be the prisoners of our societal conformity.

Debasish Mridha

#2. The contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious. People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic security.

Christopher Lasch

#3. New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.

William Shakespeare

#4. I don't know the good or the evil of the thing. That's something that only you mortals worry about.

Jim Butcher

#5. Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Funny how you always called me Albert when I am not Albert. I answered all the same.

Nin Andrews

#7. Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Peter Latham

#8. Vimes groaned. That meant wizards. You got nothing but trouble with wizards.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

Michael Pollan

#10. Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.

Bob Goff

#11. Her tears were as much anger and frustration as sadness.

Anamika Mishra

#12. Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself.

Lily Montagu

#13. Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.

Henri Poincare

#14. I don't need much sleep.

Marissa Mayer

#15. Rather than adjust his expectations in the face of disappointment, he (Jefferson) tended to bury them deeper inside himself and regard the disjunction between his ideals and the worldly imperfections as the world's problems rather than his own.

Joseph J. Ellis