Famous Austin Carr Quotes

#1. An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth
but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#2. My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another.

Max Bemis

#3. Every form of strength is also a weakness. Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them.

Michael Lewis

#4. I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.

Herbert Hoover

#5. She gets that words are sometimes bullshit and people don't mean what they say and through it all it's only actions that matter.

Katy Evans

#6. I like to pick my causes and not be forced into doing something.

Tiger Woods

#7. You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#8. If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.

Michael Ponsor

#9. You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

J. Martin Kohe

#10. Life is complex and prone to being pedantic
Always little things crawl, flutter
and creep in.
Nesting in cracks in our psyches
Gibbering, whispering and scratching
on sanity's walls.
Messages without form or reason
Teasing us to come out
And blend in.

Neil Leckman

#11. Who's crazier, anyway: people who struggle honestly, or the people who act like they never do?

Deb Caletti

#12. If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear - such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with.

Michael Leunig

#13. His touch does strange things to me. It makes me feel things. Things I'm not supposed to feel. Things I can't allow myself to feel. It's like his fingers are strumming my heartstrings, pulling, plucking, twisting, and I'm helpless. Completely and utterly helpless.

Beth Michele