If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
#quotes #arthur-capper #society #goodness #women #men

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
#quotes #john-schlesinger #homosexuality

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. ~Michele Bachmann
#quotes #michele-bachmann #government #money

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
#quotes #voltaire #independence #justice

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs

When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
#quotes #illinois-jacquet #music

I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York. ~Roy Ayers
#quotes #roy-ayers #new-york

Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
#quotes #paul-theroux #travel #maine

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
#quotes #michael-scheuer #prince #osama-bin-laden #united-states

When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
#quotes #henry-b-eyring

If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position, to make all the difference in the world. ~James Redfield
#quotes #james-redfield #world #change

"Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said. "And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?" "You love me?" "Yes." A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way," Ranger said. ~Janet Evanovich
#quotes #janet-evanovich #cars

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #curiosity

It is much more enjoyable being an actor. ~Kyle Chandler
#quotes #kyle-chandler #acting

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
#proverbs #spanish-proverbs #wisdom #stupidity

He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box. ~Stefan Zweig
#quotes #stefan-zweig #solitude #people

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
#quotes #caroline-knapp #shyness #nature #interaction

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
#quotes #richard-ford #poverty #floods #new-orleans

And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
#quotes #kerry-greenwood #helping

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ~Philip Roth
#quotes #philip-roth #pleasure

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
#quotes #imelda-marcos #nobility #humanity

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. ~Grandma Moses
#quotes #grandma-moses #helping

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
#quotes #jonathan-carroll #books #process

I got into real estate very much by accident. ~Jeff Greene
#quotes #jeff-greene #estate

There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree. ~Dave Mason
#quotes #dave-mason