Vollhardt Syllabus Quotes

#1. I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

John Prine

#2. I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.

Barack Obama

#3. The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

John Sergeant Wise

#4. The name of a person you love is more than language.

Tennessee Williams

#5. Life is short, but the years are long.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

Hugh Jackman

#7. A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.

James Boswell

#8. There's in my mind a ...
turbulent moon-ridden girl
or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers
and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs
but she is not kind.

Denise Levertov

#9. The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Jonathan Edwards

#10. All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it ...

Katherine Anne Porter