A Well Deserved Break Quotes

#1. You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?

Barbara Boxer

#2. Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

Thucydides

#3. Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Aron Ralston

#4. It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

David McCullough

#5. We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

Lysa TerKeurst

#6. China shop rules, Juliet: you break it, you pay for it, and you broke me. You got what you deserved.

Tanya Byrne

#7. ...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri)

Valerio Varesi

#8. With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would.

Lee Ann Womack

#9. The desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did not correct it, be the end of us all. p. xxxii

Eve Ensler

#10. Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

Maria Montessori

#11. A good library has all the good books. A great library has all the books.

Daniel C. Dennett

#12. The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.

Jeremy Rifkin

#13. And why not?" "You know why! This is a bad idea." "Perhaps I like a challenge." "Perhaps you're a glutton for punishment!" "Perhaps I am in love.

Karen Chance

#14. Damn straight I do," Jude said, grabbing my waist and lifting me into the cab. "Tell him my girl comes before football. Tell him my girl's breakfast comes before football.

Nicole Williams