William Roscoe Quotes

#1. Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Victor Hugo

#2. I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

Paul Begala

#3. The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.

Henry Watson Fowler

#4. I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

Rupert Giles

#5. I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain," Kele had said. "I mean, you don't know where it's been.

Neal Shusterman

#6. Life is so short. Forgetting is so long

Pablo Neruda

#7. True believing Christians are sheep among wolves, sheep for the slaughter. They must be baptized in anxiety, distress, affliction, persecution, suffering, and death.

William Roscoe Estep

#8. When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense
is understood NOT as a failure of civil society,
to be mourned,
but as an act of citizenship,
to be vaunted,
there is little civilian life left.

Jill Lepore

#9. Once you know what you want, even if you can't see it, even if you do not know how you will get it, you have to trust that it is there.

Stephen Richards

#10. Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

William Kennedy

#11. A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

David Dreman

#12. On Jan. 1, 2012, I resolved to not buy anything from Amazon for a year.

Maria Semple

#13. I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

Richard Rohr