Quotes By Famous Authors: [C]
The fact that presidents have done something does not necessarily make it right or constitutional.
Everyone makes the best decisions they can with the information they have available at the time. If you get them right half the time, you're ...
Not knowing how mant troops Jenkins truly had, Johnson refused to surrender "unless forced to do so by an exhibition of your boasted strength." Jenkins ...
What you can do is a matter of what you will do.
Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the ...
Suddenly, Blaze appears, alone. "She's in the middle of something really important. What do I tell her?"Jen groans. "Tell her she gets to hack into ...
I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.
People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes
In our fiercely individualistic society, we are increasingly alone and increasingly lonely.
Always a BOY FRIEND, never a BOYFRIEND.
Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a ...
No more mercy for the retarded.
How oftentoday might Christians think they stand for "true" Christianity when what they stand for is a secular tradition-what cultural critic Raymond Williams would call ...
Anyway, a bear jumped on my back that afternoon as I was studying, so I made myself a cup of coffee, which I decided to ...
So little goes with the body of a man. So much is left behind.
The distance between where you are now and the path you think you should be on is probably smaller than you think it is
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in ...
We tried to talk about [the Owls' zone], but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to penetrate that zone. What you do get ...
Implies that you are embarking on your own journey to hone your skills and expand your horizons. There is nothing more "engineering" than that. Organization
We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want freedom ...
So tall and lithe in his suede and leather outfit. So utterly gorgeous it almost ached to look at him.
She thought maybe she'd be a rock star, but she just ended up another name on the very long list of people Lou Reed was ...
When there is nothing left to give somone in need, we give them what we do have. We give them Divine Love, faith, and friendship. ...
That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
Hang up and drive!
Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; ...
Life is full of tough choices, indeed.
The greatest weakness of the quantitative approach is that it decontextualizes human behavior, removing an event from its real-world setting and ignoring the effects of ...
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.
Go then, I will keep a herring in the window for you.
Looks like Claudia should get busy and start to enter her favorites on this list.
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
You move because you are built for movement, because your heartbeat and respiration are involuntary. Though you feel the part of you that is always ...
There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you ...
When you take a book away from a child, you are taking a child away from a stepping stone.
In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love.
This book is dedicated to Thomas Coleman, a retired longshoreman, who died in his attic at 2214 St. Roch Avenue in New Orleans' 8th Ward ...
It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.
I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.
I'm going to go out on tour when I feel like going on tour.
The heart under your heart is not the one you shareso readily so full of pleasantry & tendernessit is a single blackberry at the heart ...
We are an oasis in the desert, beautiful but doomed!
If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players.
Just take things as they come. And, as you go though life, find as much good as you possible can. But never expect too much ...
I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.
Usually, I'm on the bus by now, having a beer and waiting for everyone else. This is cutting into my beer time.
Inspired people also have a stronger drive to master their work, but are less competitive.
Love people where they're at.
Whistling to keep up courage is good practice for whistling.