Quotes About The Westing Game

#1. When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

James Cook

#2. Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.

Ellen Raskin

#3. Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

Adyashanti

#4. We are the thoughts we choose to keep.

A.D. Posey

#5. Gin! Gin, are you here?"
"Right behind you," I said.
Finn shrieked and whirled around. I winced at the high-pitched sound.
"Dammit, woman." He clutched the folder to his chest. "Are you trying to give me a heart attack?

Jennifer Estep

#6. Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

Ellen Raskin

#7. I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

Jill Ker Conway

#8. My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

Maurice Strong

#9. Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

Ellen Raskin

#10. There's one thing that's really great about waking up early, and it's not jogging or greeting the day - it's just that that's when they make doughnuts.

Kathy Griffin

#11. Your peace of mind, your assurance of answers to vexing problems, your ultimate joy depend upon your trust in Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.

Richard G. Scott

#12. The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

Ellen Raskin