Quotes For January 11

#1. No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

Gore Vidal

#2. May the love at Christmas be with us throughout coming year.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Wise, spiritual faith - the kind I'm advocating - is a commitment of trust based on solid, though incomplete, evidence that we're believing in the right things and moving in the best direction.

Mark Mittelberg

#4. Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.

George Herbert

#5. I didn't know when I began to care what Knox thought about me. In fact, we enjoyed having a mutual disdain for the other, it kept us honest. But somewhere along the way the waters got muddled and now the emptiness that had consumed me before was filled with an ache.

Teresa Mummert

#6. (When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.

Harper Lee

#7. Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any of our efforts to speak and mean things are ultimately why we speak.

Paul Fry

#8. Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

Bill Kristol

#9. We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary.

Caterina Fake

#10. When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

Patricia McBride

#11. The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
[State of the Union Address January 11 1962]

John F. Kennedy

#12. God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

Tony Kushner

#13. Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#14. It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

John Bunyan

#15. Surreal existence. She had been a serial killer. Was she, had she been, a surreal killer? Was her former life surreal and now this, this unknown, was it real? A surreal killer. A cereal killer. What was a cereal killer? Ah, she knew, it was the person who ate the last of the Cheerios.

Anna Schilke

#16. Before you sit down to listen to the news at seven, kneel down to ask God for the dew of Heaven

Julius Owusu

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Anonymous

#18. The failure of protection, the importance of recognizing the ways in which we influence (and infect) each other - the fact that being an "individual" can't protect you - these are issues I've been thinking about for a while.

Laura Mullen

#19. There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

Estelle Morris

#20. His mouthpiece in Venezuela, ViVe TV, issued a press release in January 2010, saying the 200,000 innocent victims of the awful Haiti earthquake were really killed by an American "earthquake weapon."11

Donald J. Trump

#21. In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving harmony. But when the relations between spouses are uncertain and there is neither the one nor the other, nothing can be undertaken.

Leo Tolstoy