Zettler Cottage Quotes

#1. After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.

Stephen Kinzer

#2. In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Franz Kafka

#3. I am, a shadow
that grows longer as the sun
moves, drawn out
on a thread of wonder.
If I bear burdens
they begin to be remembered
as gifts, goods, a basket
of bread that hurts
my shoulders but closes me
in fragrance. I can
eat as I go.
("Stepping Westward")

Denise Levertov

#4. The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.

Jim Bunning

#5. We believe our suppliers of materials have not been impacted. At this point, our customers have not asked us to do anything differently as a result of the earthquake.

Paul Otellini

#6. If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

Paul Bloom

#7. When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

John Boyd Orr

#8. Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

Mason Cooley

#9. Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched ...

Janet Fitch

#10. That's bollocks,' said Owen's voice over the loudspeakers.
'That a medical term?' asked Jack.
'It is when I use it.

Trevor Baxendale

#11. Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.

Wayne Pacelle