Likelyhood Quotes

#1. Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own character would not have stood firm.

Jonathan Shay

#2. As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

Chanakya

#3. This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

Lord Byron

#4. I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

Kathy Griffin

#5. I've been a good teacher for eleven years, and then they come up with this mandated testing crap? With the state pushing for performance, the Board of Ed would have been all over me once those test results came in! Me? Like it's my fault these kids can't pass a test?

Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa

#6. Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph, until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.

Roddy Doyle

#7. Nothing can stop the power of a committed and determined people to make a difference in our society. Why? Because human beings are the most dynamic link to the divine on this planet.

John Lewis

#8. His grandfather probably would have said that all men feel fear, but cowardly men deny it.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#9. All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

Homer

#10. If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

Simon Heffer

#11. Misery alternates with euphoria.

Patricia Gaffney

#12. I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

Russell Simmons

#13. I was always the quiet one, the one who followed suit, doing what others told me to do.

Jettie Woodruff