Truckle Quotes

#1. Cohen looked at the forest of lances and pennants. Hundreds of thousands of men looked like quite a lot of men when you saw them close to.
"I suppose," he said, slowly, "that none of you has got some amazing plan you've been keeping quiet about?"
"We thought you had one," said Truckle.

Terry Pratchett

#2. The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

Matthew Henry

#3. It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo

#5. The rich are depressed because they realize their money can't buy them out of their issues.

Michelle Singletary

#6. Rigg pressed her back against a tree and closed her eyes, wishing she could have died in a less humiliating way. She supposed it could have been worse: the frog could have been a cute mechanical bunny.

Ash Gray

#7. As any exceptional actor will tell you, the most important element of acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you're golden.

The Gang

#8. Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

Lydia Millet

#9. I got up at exactly 6:15 a.m., showered, and did ten minutes of yoga. Then I had a continental breakfast with freshly squeezed orange juice, half a bagel with goat cheese, and a green smoothie, all

Rachel Renee Russell

#10. I took a step back.
"Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.

Elizabeth Chandler

#11. The mind-speech and body remain 'effective', the outer environment is also 'effective' and when the Self (Soul) remains 'un-effective'; that is the ultimate stage!

Dada Bhagwan

#12. I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

Stewart Butterfield

#13. Adele shattered the image of how the stereotypical singer is supposed to look. She has that whole 'Screw you, I'm awesome for what I do' attitude, which I really look up to and want to be a part of.

Mary Lambert

#14. I try to stay friends with everybody because you might go back and work with somebody who you had a horrible experience with and it could be great the next time. You never know which way it's going to go, never say never.

Rob Zombie

#15. Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#16. We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.

John Piper

#17. Men were as plentiful as salmon, but a best friend was a freshwater pearl.

Colleen Coble

#18. We're all hangmen.

Lauren Oliver