Emmott Circle Quotes

#1. It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.

Barton Gellman

#2. Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done - we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is.

Eamon De Valera

#3. Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

Marian Engel

#4. Love deserves monuments, and this is the only kind I know how to build.

Jeff Zentner

#5. The unredeemed Spirits and their followers, their works, and all their doings---be their unrelenting enemy and try throughout your life to command them and never to serve them.

Abraham Von Worms

#6. We know the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. I'm a huge fan of just keeping a healthy lifestyle. For your body but for your mind, also.

Julianne Hough

#8. If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies.

Dave Barry

#9. Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#10. When the story gets sad and terrible, when there are too many mistakes to count, hang on for the beautiful parts. Wait for them. Have some faith they'll arrive. This is also precisely the point: the hanging on. The waiting, the faith.

Deb Caletti

#11. Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers.

Richelle E. Goodrich