Themeless Quotes

#1. A bruise is how the body remembers it's been wronged.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.

Robert Dallek

#3. Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. JOHN 12:3

Anne Graham Lotz

#4. Silence is more profitable unto thee than abundance of speech.

Ptahhotep

#5. My spirit is too weak
mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

John Keats

#6. The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this unbought luxury of the wilderness.

Washington Irving

#7. The trees' bare bony fingers
point crookedly
towards Heaven or Hell
or worse than that, towards nowhere.

Stephanie Hemphill

#8. Misunderstandings are a normal part of life, and the outcomes of these depend upon how we choose to react to them.

C. JoyBell C.

#9. The troop whose captain is (apparently) not managing it, but whose girls manage themselves under the Scout laws, is the ideal troop.

Girl Scouts Of The U.S.A.

#10. Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power ... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding ... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.

David Whyte

#11. Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

Vivienne Westwood

#12. I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

Bill Nye

#13. The boys like me as a pal but I don't believe anyone will ever really fall in love with me."
"Nonsense," said Emily reassuringly. "Nine out of ten men will fall in love with you."
"But it will be the tenth I'll want," persisted Ilse gloomily.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone ... so I had to bring him wherever I went.

Matthew Pearl

#15. There's nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

Scott Adams