Mountaineer Casino Quotes

#1. Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)

Seymour Simon

#2. Karma waits on the doorstep, meaning that a person may try to walk away from past actions, but like a dog sleeping by the door until its master returns, Karma can be endlessly patient. Eventually the universe will insist on redressing the balance of wrong with right.

Deepak Chopra

#3. I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

Damon Hill

#4. I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's much easier writing from a psychopath's point of view than from that of their empathetic opposite.

Justine Larbalestier

#5. My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Ted Turner

#6. There is no shortage of apologists for the ubiquitous highway crud.

James Howard Kunstler

#7. As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.

Marianne Williamson

#8. It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

Clement Of Alexandria

#9. People in low life have no such privilege. Necessity, which spares our betters, has no pity on us. We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be.

Wilkie Collins

#10. Destiny was a hope found in the hearts of desperate men. But sometimes, if they believed strongly enough, desperate men could do great things.

A. Lee Martinez

#11. All of a sudden, he began to laugh. Had I said something funny? Had he? How long had I been spacing out for, slowly growing conscious that my fate was in the hands of a group of college kids who'd kill me off just for a laugh.
Little did they realize that I was organizing a revolt.

The Harvard Lampoon