Evocates Quotes

#1. Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

Paulo Coelho

#2. When people talk about how in America, anybody can grow up to be President, I'm not sure George Bush is exactly what they had in mind.

Will Durst

#3. Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

Seth Godin

#4. The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.

Ethel Wilson

#5. He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

Publilius Syrus

#6. The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

Mason Cooley

#7. At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care - if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

Gore Vidal

#8. For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

Radclyffe Hall

#9. Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

Richard Siken

#10. Another characteristic of human nature - perhaps the one that makes us most human - is our capacity to do the unnatural, to transcend and hence transform our own nature.

M. Scott Peck

#11. The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

Gerald McRaney

#12. Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

Saul Bellow

#13. How long have you been here?"
"I don't know. You just stole my watch," he said with a shrug.

Amy Neftzger

#14. I unrolled my window to get away from the cigarette smog a little and watched a different world roll by.

Stephen King