Underlayers Quotes

#1. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

Dale Carnegie

#2. there's something satisfying and liberating about covering ground solely by moving our own bodies.

Dana L. Ayers

#3. The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

William Cullen Bryant

#4. My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

Tony Dorsett

#5. The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

Jon Krakauer

#6. A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

Theodore Dalrymple

#7. If anything is more irresistible than Jesus, it's Mickey.

Carl Hiaasen

#8. Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

Mark Twain

#9. To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#10. I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.

Ted Lyons

#11. Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

Solon

#12. Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

Robertson Davies