Unremembered Empire Quotes

#1. She gathered some brown seaweed and made a flat damp poultice of it, and this she applied to the baby's swollen shoulder, which was as good a remedy as any and probably better than the doctor could have done. But the remedy lacked his authority because it was simple and didn't cost anything.

John Steinbeck

#2. Marriages only work well when both sides desist from keeping scorecards of each other's performance.

Sheila Wray Gregoire

#3. With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.

Gary Weiss

#4. So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.

Steve Schirripa

#5. I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

Patricia Schroeder

#6. I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

David Guterson

#7. If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia.

Dave Grohl

#8. To hope until hope creates from its very own wreck the thing it contemplates.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#9. In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity ... With a barrier of fear removed, a loving and forgiving awareness seemed to occur quite naturally and spontaneously.

George Greer

#10. But of those whom He has chosen, whom He has purchased to Himself, He says what He says not of others - "my people." In

Charles Haddon Spurgeon