Mat 20 Quotes

#1. The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

Jerome Frank

#2. I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good.

Teresa Heinz

#3. I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.

Anne Frank

#4. Just because you don't feel calm, doesn't mean you can't be calm.

Penny Reid

#5. When we ... go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we've had, we end up reeling and straggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.

Pam W. Vredevelt

#6. I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.

Ellen G. White

#7. What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way will we know whether our home life is normal or whether we live in a dysfunctional solar family.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

Warren Moon

#9. I've been writing forever, 20 years.

Mat Johnson

#10. On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

Mary Karr

#11. You told me to tell the truth, and this is exactly why I didn't want to. You want me to think I'm selfish."
"I want you to own your thoughts and actions, and not be afraid of them. Accepting your limitations is every bit as important as embracing your strengths.

Dawn Jayne

#12. I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.

Luis Fortuno

#13. In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Hannah Arendt

#14. Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.

John Lennon

#15. Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.

Stephen Baxter