Baracca Hotel Quotes

#1. There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Erma Bombeck

#2. Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.

Peter Hedges

#3. Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Benjamin Franklin

#4. People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

Tom Robbins

#5. I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.

Colman Domingo

#6. Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

Sudhir Kakar

#7. The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

Victor Gold

#8. Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.

Iain Benson

#9. His dinner included three hamburgers and two orders of fries. I had no idea where those calories went. To his ego, maybe?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

Bhartrhari

#11. If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

Mark Batterson

#12. I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#13. Most success depends on colleagues, on the team. People at the top have large egos, but you must never say 'I': it's always 'we'.

Frank Lampl

#14. My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

George Eliot