Clairee Quotes

#1. Ouiser, you sound almost chipper. What happened today - you run over a small child or something?" ~Clairee (Steel Magnolias)

Robert Harling

#2. People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.

Adam Hamilton

#3. While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity. And

Leo Tolstoy

#4. When something is no longer working, changing your plans is not giving up. It's not failure.

Kylie Scott

#5. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.

Rafael Yglesias

#7. We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#8. Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times ...

George Ellery Hale

#9. Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours, the hungrier it gets.

J.M. Coetzee

#10. States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ...

H.G.Wells