Designating Quotes

#1. We should give chaos pride of place once a year or so, designating occasions on which we can be briefly exempted from the two greatest pressures of secular adult life: having to be rational and having to be faithful.

Alain De Botton

#2. Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.

Milton Friedman

#3. I suppose it's useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an "I," but it's a loose lasso, one which may rope certain poems by one poet and not others.

Matthea Harvey

#4. Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.

Alice Morse Earle

#5. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.

Ed Catmull

#6. I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.

Barack Obama

#7. The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!

Roland Barthes

#8. I'm never going again. It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#9. Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be;
but be the right thing.

Burning Spear

#10. Would it ring? It would not ring.
Should you call? You should not call.
But you always called. You couldn't help but call because your heart was crushed and you thought maybe if you talked it out ONE MORE TIME the person who crushed your heart would change his/her mind and uncrush it.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.

Paul Broun

#12. To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.

Mitch McConnell

#13. Without the Gospel, I am only projecting behavioral modification. Changes of the heart must trump mere change of behavior. Therefore, the goodness of God through the gospel must trump all other philosophies in the home.

Eric Mason

#14. But without William K, I would have forgotten that I had not been born on this journey. That I had lived before this.

Dave Eggers

#15. Your dream will keep you awake until you take a grip.

Euginia Herlihy

#16. There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Enrique Iglesias