Plumb Line Quotes

#1. One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.

Nicholas Kristof

#2. I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

Carole King

#3. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.

George Washington

#4. General Grant seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.

Henry Adams

#5. Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.

Woody Allen

#6. It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The Prison Plumb Line to explore all three.

Yvonne J. Medley

#7. Truth will find me I have no fear...'
WISH - Dreams Beginning

Deby Adair

#8. Most of my reading is rereading.

Susan Sontag

#9. This then is injustice; and on the other hand when the trader, the auxiliary, and the guardian each do their own business, that is justice, and will make the city just. I agree with you. We

Plato

#10. After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen

Nostradamus

#11. Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?

Quentin Crisp

#12. I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

Parker J. Palmer

#13. I like Ryan Gosling from the inside. I think he's a beautiful person, and then if you didn't have anything, I'd still be his friend.

Ashton Moio

#14. Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

E.L. Doctorow