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  • The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.

    Self   Climate   Ornery  
  • The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

    Philip Yancey (2014). “Vanishing Grace Study Guide: Whatever Happened to the Good News?”, p.22, Harper Collins
  • I’ve flown kites before and I know – sometimes they’re gone forever, and sometimes they’re just waiting in the middle of the road for you to rescue them. Kites can be lucky or they can be ornery. I’ve had both kinds, and a lucky kite is definitely worth chasing for.

    Waiting   Forever   Lucky  
    Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

  • Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples - an ornery, undependable, and hopelessly flawed group of men - became drunk with the power of a gospel that offered free forgiveness to the worst sinners and traitors. Those men managed to change the world.

    Jesus   Men   Impact  
    Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.95, Harper Collins
  • When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding what you said about the speaker identifying with the bear: I'm not sure it's exactly right to say that the speaker feels that the bear must share his sadness, or whatever else he is feeling. That would be classic pathetic fallacy, which is certainly generative for poetry, but here the speaker appears actually to be rejecting that idea.

    Zoos   Sadness   Oakland  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

    Kings   Ornery   Way  
    Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.137, Classics HD
  • the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.

    Ralph Ellison (1994). “Invisible man”, Random House Inc
  • I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.

    Doctors   Years   Ornery  
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