December 28 Quotes

#1. A waste of time and money
is the beautiful and wonderful projection of peace.
The Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
December 28, 2016

Petra Hermans

#2. Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.

Leonard Boswell

#3. Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Calvin Coolidge

#4. Control is an illusion - a fact you will learn very fast if you become ill, or have things fall apart in some other way. When we understand vulnerability and suffering as an essential part of being human, our individual fate can be easier to manage.

Harriet Lerner

#5. I don't know,' Charlie said. 'Have you gotten a good look at them? I mean, they got the badonkadonk out back and some fine bajoopbadangs up front, know what I'm sayin', dog? Buss a rock wid a playa?' He offered his fist for Minty to buss him a rock, but alas, the mint one left him hangin'.

Christopher Moore

#6. The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

Henry Cavill

#7. Because scientists are reasonable men, one or another argument will ultimately persuade many of them. But there is no single argument that can or should persuade them all. Rather than a single group conversion, what occurs is an increasing shift in the distribution of professional allegiances.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#8. If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

John Locke

#9. Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

Alan Watts

#11. I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person.

John Green

#12. I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

Isabel Allende

#13. People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963

Sylvia Plath

#14. It is the calling of each man and woman who draws breath to have a grand vision for our lives,

Brendon Burchard

#15. To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

Iyanla Vanzant

#16. Iliad's subject is not war or its wickedness but a crisis in how to be.

Adam Nicolson