Excedrin Tension Quotes

#1. We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.

George Eliot

#2. Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's why it's so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

Alicia Keys

#3. Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

Peter David

#4. You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#5. Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

Theodore Parker

#6. We're not aware of the "big picture," any more than a plankton whose universe was a liter of water would be aware of the world's topography and biosphere.

Martin J. Rees

#7. Time plays tricks between here and home, said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

Garth Nix

#8. Winners take the action that others won't.

James Arthur Ray

#9. People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

Henry Ford

#10. And here is our girl, looking
If possible, worse than before. (You thought this was Cinderella transistorized?)

James Tiptree Jr.

#11. When I wake up, I look to God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate. Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair.

Sharon Brous

#13. You gotta look out for number one, but don't step in number two!

Rodney Dangerfield

#14. Abundant afterlife evidence tells us that we are here to learn to forgive completely and learn to love others universally.

Roberta Grimes

#15. The work of art itself is ... a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

Susan Sontag