Essays Tires Quotes

#1. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

Thomas Merton

#2. I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.

Ben Lerner

#3. People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And people are looking for hope and inspiration. I understand that.

Joan Larkin

#4. I can honestly say that being a United States Senator has been the honor of my life.

John Ensign

#5. Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system?

Bill Maher

#7. Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.

Albert Camus

#8. And rich white people were not so hard on Negroes; it was the poor whites who hated Negroes.

Anonymous

#9. I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.

Ozzy Osbourne

#10. He peered gloomily into a folio of maps. 'I always think Brazil is too big.

Jude Morgan

#11. I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

Ray Romano

#12. It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient ... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#13. I felt like the girl who showed up at a formal dinner party in jeans and a Pink Floyd T-shirt. Probably 'cause I did that once.

Darynda Jones

#14. Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst.

Richelle E. Goodrich