Glencorse Old Quotes

#1. I hadn't been left on the doorstep of an orphanage or church. I wasn't abandoned in some frilly basket by a tearful mother. Even that was too romantic of a story for me. I was left in a trashcan. Meant to die, I figured.

R.K. Lilley

#2. We all learn how to do something eventually. First, we fall down. Then we get up. We fall down yet again, and then we get up. And then we succeed.

Sydney Wilhelmy

#3. If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.

Ben Macintyre

#4. You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.

Sally Jessy Raphael

#5. The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.

Randall Kennedy

#6. I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now.
I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.

Dean Koontz

#7. I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis

Joe Louis

#8. It annoys me how pretty my voice is ... that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.

Thom Yorke

#9. It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.

Margaret Sanger

#10. Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.

Stephen Goldin

#11. The world is God's workshop for making men in.

Henry Ward Beecher