Languishing Def Quotes

#1. President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal?

Jay Leno

#2. Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.

Benjamin Greene

#4. We can just talk,' he says. Like a boy.

Karen Foxlee

#5. It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

Hank Snow

#6. - What is it about wine, Harry?
- What d'ya mean?
- What is it that cures us?
- Made to glorify the gods. And dull the idiots.

Colum McCann

#7. What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine.

S.A. Tawks

#8. I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us
to remind us how to be human.

John Green

#9. Chess and theatre often lead to madness.

Fernando Arrabal

#10. I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.

George W. Bush

#11. They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

George MacDonald

#12. The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

Hans Hofmann

#13. Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

Jessie Redmon Fauset