[From Rumor Has It]
- I didn’t come here to tell you that I can’t live without you. I can live without you. I just don’t want to.
- I only drive slow, sweetheart, because you’re in the car.
- Life has to be a little nuts sometimes. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of Tuesdays strung together.
[boondock saints]
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Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.
[GK Chesterton]
- A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. – Everlasting Man, 1925
- Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies just because they become fashions. – ILN, 4/19/30
- Adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
- Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance. – The Speaker, 12/15/00
- To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. – A Miscellany of Men
- The simplification of anything is always sensational.
- Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.
- To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
- Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God. – Christendom in Dublin, 1933
- America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
- A good man’s work is effected by doing what he does, a woman’s by being what she is.
- If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
- The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
[Shadow in the Wind Book]
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One has to pay some price for being able to pee standing up.
- I did not want to lose the story’s spell or bid farewell to its characters yet.
- We were two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
- Poetry lies, in its adorable wicked way
- We had walked most of the way without speaking, not daring to turn our thoughts into words.
- The female heart is a labyrinth of subtleties, too challenging for the uncouth mind of the male racketeer
- Men respond to the dictates of the genital and digestive organs.
- Making money isn’t hard in itself. What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.
- Destiny is usually just around the corner but what it does not do is make home visits. You must go for it.
- Just an innocent boy who thought he had conquered the world in an hour but didn’t yet realize he could lose it again in an instant.
- God gives us life, but the world’s landlord is the devil.
- A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind
- He stared at me as if I had inquired about the sex of angels.




To Memorize & Possibly Recite
I. Boondock Saints Closing Speech + Prayer
II. SM Lockridge That’s My King
III. Ice Ice Baby
IV. Gettysburg Address
V. Parts of kill mockingbird
VI. Part of sermon on mount
By: Carolyn Stewart on December 31, 2008
at 3:51 pm
good at formatting?
By: Carolyn Stewart on December 31, 2008
at 3:52 pm