Linkey List Quotes

#1. What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

Ben Nelson

#2. There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

John Osborne

#3. I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

Dennis Lehane

#4. PSA73.28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

Anonymous

#5. Luke caught Mina's chin in his left hand and turned her face toward him. 'Guess what, sweetheart?'
'What?'
He grinned. 'I'm keeping you.

Cynthia Eden

#6. In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline a new way for us to think about young women as moral actors, one that doesn't include their bodies.

Jessica Valenti

#7. Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

Eudora Welty

#8. Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.

Richard Bach

#10. With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

Henri Matisse

#11. ...saving a life and nurturing a life are different processes, and that to succeed in the former one must dispense with the pathos of the latter.

Anthony Marra

#12. Stop looking for something when something has already found you. You have been living with your eyes closed. Awaken, it's there. Take it, it's yours.

Robert M. Drake

#13. I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

Erwin Schrodinger