Courtlyn Cannan Quotes

#1. Meditative prayer does not do violence to our rational faculties. Neither does it confine us solely to the rational. We descend with the mind into the heart.

Richard J. Foster

#2. We are fastened to a dying animal.

William Butler Yeats

#3. On Fridays there were fish fries or boils at which they served "lawyers" (burbot or eelpout), so-called because their hearts were in their butts.

Lorrie Moore

#4. Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

Albert Schweitzer

#5. Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.

Christina Milian

#6. Seize something wonderful; don't lose your chance waiting for it to become legal.

Bauvard

#7. Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.

Darin Strauss

#8. Outside the box is an overused cliche which goes nowhere near far enough. In fact, there are so many politicians and salesmen thinking outside the box these days that I am convinced that all of their boxes are completely empty!

Lance Greenfield

#9. Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative.

Anonymous

#10. Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Harriet Martineau

#11. As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

Joyce Carol Oates

#12. What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to replenish the treasury of some of the States from the pockets of the people of the others; in reality, to make them support the governments and pay the debts of other States as well as their own?

John C. Calhoun

#13. God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.

K. Howard Joslin

#14. However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

Ed Markey