Glaspie Auto Quotes

#1. no government is ever innocent enough or wise enough or just enough to lay claim to so absolute a power as death. (p. 21)

Helen Prejean

#2. The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.

Larry Constantine

#3. I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

Steven Spielberg

#4. It's in a can. It's good forever.

Renata Suerth

#5. I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V.
It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

Sharon M. Draper

#6. A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud.

Helen Steiner Rice

#7. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy

#8. Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.

Ernst Mach

#9. What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.

Stanley Kauffmann

#10. Open books, not legs; blow minds, not guys.

Trish Jackson

#11. Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Isobelle Carmody

#12. It is good that you ruined your face, because it brought you to me, but also because beautiful women rarely work strong magic.

Catherynne M Valente

#13. And although he tried every day to remember the promise he'd made to her, every day it became more and more remote, until it was just a memory, and so was she, a beloved character from a book he'd read long ago.

Hanya Yanagihara

#14. Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

Sandra Cisneros