Confucian Analects Quotes

#1. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.

Jodi Picoult

#2. On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.

Marcia Sirota

#3. The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

Michael Lewis

#4. Whatever belonging to the region of thought and feeling is uttered in words, is of necessity uttered imperfectly. For thought and feeling are infinite, and human speech, although far-reaching in scope, and marvelous in delicacy, can embody them after all but approximately and suggestively.

George MacDonald

#5. God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace.
R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#6. O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!

Fanny Burney

#7. Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

Laura Schlessinger

#8. Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.

Joan Lowery Nixon

#9. Guys I'm kind of nutty, but you have to understand that that's all just me being myself.

Darren Criss