lord of the flies piggy quotes

Sunshine is my quest. ~Winston Churchill



The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. ~Helen Keller



All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. ~Paul Simon



Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



Opposites are cures for opposites. ~Hippocrates



I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes. ~Tommy Tune, on why he never considered playing basketball



Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. ~Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson



No pillow so soft as God's promise. ~Author Unknown



The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving



Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ~Ambrose Bierce



Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, translated from French



The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice. ~Henry Knox Sherrill



I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854



Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. ~Phyllis Theroux, Night Lights



A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. ~Rita Mae Brown



All mothers are working mothers. ~Author Unknown



The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck



In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton



Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development. ~Author Unknown



Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com