Candy Lightner Quotes

#1. I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.

Candy Lightner

#2. Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.

Candy Lightner

#3. It preyed on human desire and it paid off by sheer terror.

John Grisham

#4. Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)

Candy Lightner

#5. Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Candy Lightner

#6. The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

Candy Lightner

#7. But an oft-heard complaint, as companies spread their tentacles around the world and compete on a global playing field, is that globalization is merely a new form of imperialism.

Tom Standage

#8. The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital ... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

John F. Kennedy

#9. If you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Terry Pratchett

#10. I'll give you this much; it might be our dagger

Henning