Herlihy Mid Continent Quotes

#1. Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jeremy Bentham

#2. When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.

Kevin DeYoung

#3. There is death.
Making his way through all of it.
On the surface: unflappable, unwavering.
Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.

Markus Zusak

#4. Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom.

Don DeLillo

#5. Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it ...

Mary Hays

#6. If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.

Bernie Siegel

#7. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Whewell

#8. The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one's political future.

Mark McKinnon

#9. Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#10. [A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society ...

Theophile Gautier

#11. I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

Alan Sugar

#12. I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home.

Travis Barker

#13. Something my mom likes to say when she's up on her equal-opportunity soapbox floats through my head: People have enough reasons not to like you just based on how you look; don't give them any more based on how you act.

Una LaMarche

#14. A Christian way of thinking is not just thinking Christian thoughts, singing Christian songs, reading Christian books, going to Christian schools; it is learning to think about the whole spectrum of life from the perspective of a mind that has been trained in truth.

Alistair Begg