Twiddled Quotes

#1. History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

#2. Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

Lyman Bryson

#3. No one looks at an olive tree and asks why it hides it fruits. It blossoms when its ready and under the right conditions.

Sadiqua Hamdan

#4. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#6. The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Nat King Cole

#8. Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

Stanley Hauerwas