Mccloughan Mansion Quotes

#1. Maybe the ability to confer attention to another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity. When it came down to it, all we ever really have to give each other is our attention. Wasn't that what love was? Paying selfless attention?

Carolyn Jourdan

#2. leave me a smile
just warm enough...
to spend a million
golden afternoons in.

Sanober Khan

#3. Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

Charles Darwin

#4. Great faith, Great spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Life is a rush into the unknown. You can duck down & hope nothing hits you, Or stand as tall as you can, show it your teeth & say: "Dish it up, baby, and don't be stingy with the jalapenos." - must be female ;-)

Grey Owl

#6. Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.

William O. Douglas

#7. Men whose spirit has grown arrogant from the great favor of fortune have this most serious fault - those whom they have injured they also hate.

Seneca.

#8. 'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.

L.A. Weatherly

#9. If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#10. A once-robbed John, it won't remove its wallet from its trousers again until it gets the action it paid for. Nice try, sweet thing. NOT.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.

Dallin H. Oaks

#12. Political war was to be the rule, not the exception, in American life. "The country is so totally given up to the spirit of party, that not to follow blindfold the one or the other is an inexpiable offense," Adams wrote during Jefferson's first term.12

Jon Meacham

#13. Beulah has a husband?'
I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.

Bill Bryson

#14. No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.

Steve Guttenberg