Arelene's Quotes

#1. Arelene's middle name was tolerance, mostly because she was too easygoing to take a moral stance.

Charlaine Harris

#2. The only thing harder than leaving is being left behind.

Jennifer E. Smith

#3. Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.

Evelyn Waugh

#4. Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs
in time, in space, and in potential
the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

Carl Sagan

#5. Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#6. I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.

John Rhys-Davies

#7. The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

Strom Thurmond

#8. As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy

#9. When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

Antonio Porchia

#10. But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding in the shadows, far more pain in not standing for principle, not standing for the good, not standing for integrity.

Ted Cruz

#11. It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out.

Grace Coolidge

#12. Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.

Nelson Mandela

#13. Praying always means praying through things and not giving up. It means being ever-watchful and persevering in prayer in order to see breakthrough.
God wants us to be persistent in our praying. Don't forget to spend some quiet time praying to your Heavenly Father today.

Stormie O'martian

#14. In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

Atul Gawande

#15. I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

Herb Kelleher