Throating My Daughter Quotes

#1. The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three years before the Civil War. Because the conflict ended up fizzling out, it's not the most dramatic story about the West.

David Roberts

#2. The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.

R.L. LaFevers

#3. Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.

Robyn Davidson

#4. All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

Margaret Atwood

#5. If you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

Frederick Buechner

#6. To put it in somewhat drastic terms, Cambridge in the thirties was characterised by two things: a craze for communism and a craze for homosexuality.
"Rubbish!" Farley said.
"Well, you're bound to have been busy with other things as well, like drunkenness, geometry and Shakespeare.

David Lagercrantz

#7. If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

Cavett Robert

#8. The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Anonymous

#9. I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

Martin Kippenberger

#10. I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.

Larry Ellison

#11. Who knows if [maybe] destiny is just how you tell yourself the story of your life?

Jandy Nelson

#12. A person is limited by his conception of himself, nothing more. If you really knew who you were, you could stop the sun from rising tomorrow.

Christopher Pike