Tristrams Landing Quotes

#1. I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

Barbara Deming

#2. Josie is a Pye," said Marilla sharply, "so she can't help being disagreeable. I suppose people of that kind serve some useful purpose in society, but I must say I don't know what it is any more than I know the use of thistles.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. It was fear that first made the gods25 - fear of hidden forces in the earth, rivers, oceans, trees, winds, and sky. Religion became the propitiatory worship of these forces through offerings, sacrifice, incantation, and prayer.

Will Durant

#4. Settle down and be Good forever. Find the hardest things to accept in me, and reconcile what I am with what I hope to be.

Jen Wang

#5. Always
in the middle
of our bloodiest battles
you lay down your arms
like flowering mines
to conqueror me home,
-Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

#6. Why give give up?
Why give in?

Breaking Benjamin

#7. A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

John F. MacArthur

#9. Yet there was something else, something different about her this time, like a room where someone has thrown out all the flowers while you were gone: a change in the interior you don't even notice at first, not until you see the stems sticking out of the garbage.

Herman Koch

#10. I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

Patti Smith

#11. The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. Pleasure to me is wonder - the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

H.P. Lovecraft