quotes about Touchstones

“One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.”

“A motorcycle is an independent thing.”

Source : "Kim Coates, Ryan Hurst and Theo Rossi Talks 'Sons of Anarchy' and Where Their Characters Are in Season 5". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 24, 2012.

“When in love or inspired, An eternal kiss from the divine Awaits us all.”

Source : Scott Hastie, “When In Love”

“Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.”

“He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.”

“I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.”

“Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.”

“I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.”

“I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.”

Source : "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.