David Putnam > David's Quotes

“It's a terrifying thought that I am responsible for my own misery, so I cast away.”
― Rose S. White, You - The World of Thoughts Matters

“Fear is so powerful that it can quickly confuse and scare happy thoughts away.”
― Rose S. White, You - The World of Thoughts Matters

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”
― Jessica Hische

“Place gathers stories, relationships, memories. This two acres of sacred landscape in the mountains of Montana has provided the material conditions for preserving a continuity of story in the course of living in eighteen residences located variously in five states and two countries. It has provided a stable location in space and time to give prayerful, meditative, discerning attention to the ways in which my life is being written into the comprehensive salvation story. It is the holy ground from which choke-cherry blossoms scent the spring air and giant ponderosa pines keep sentinel watch in the forest. It opens out on an immense glacier-cut horizon against which the invisibilities of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit form a believing imagination where the “inside is larger than the outside.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir

“Huckleberry came and went, at his own free will. He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet; he did not have to go to school or to church, or call any being master or obey anybody; he could go fishing or swimming when and where he chose, and stay as long as it suited him; nobody forbade him to fight; he could sit up as late as he pleased; he was always the first boy that went barefoot in the spring and the last to resume leather in the fall; he never had to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully. In a word, everything that goes to make life precious that boy had. So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Hang the boy, can't I never learn anything? Ain't he played tricks on me enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time? But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can;t learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my goodness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know what's coming? He 'pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my dander up and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it's all down again and I can't hit him a lick. I ain't doing my duty by that boy, and that's the Lord's truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a-laying up sin and suffering for the both of us, I know. He's full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he's my own dead sister's boy, poor thing, and I ain't got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart almost breaks. Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it's so. He'll play hooky this evening, and I'll just be obleeged to make him work tomorrow, to punish him. It's mighty hard to make him work Saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday, but he hates work more than he hates anything else, and I've got to do some of my duty by him, or I'll be the ruination of the child.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Sabia que ali dentro, naquele sótão, estava tudo cheio de letras a fingirem-se de mortas, mas — sei muito bem — basta que passemos os olhos por elas para saltarem cheias de vida.”
― Afonso Cruz, Os Livros Que Devoraram o Meu Pai

“Justice is not natural among people, but the struggle for justice is the most noble act in society. Because justice may not be possible, but as it’s the way toward the desired society for each one to live in, that’s why its struggle is noble and regard as the highest act.”
― Zaman Ali, GOVERNMENT Servant, Not Master

“But Gideon was experiencing one powerful emotion: being sick of everyone’s shit.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
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― Mort Walker

“I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.”
― George Ella Lyon, Holding on to Zoe

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Old age is no place for sissies!”
― Bette Davis

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.”
― Jay Bell, Something Like Summer