Reengaging Lapsed Quotes

#1. Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way.

Jack Johnson

#2. The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet girl, there are wolves at the door. If we are not careful, they might eat us.

Ruta Sepetys

#4. Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.

Ann M. Dibb

#5. I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
and as the train
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it's not pretty.

Charles Bukowski

#6. I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.

Pierre Cardin

#7. In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

Aristotle.

#8. I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn't feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept.

Andrea Dworkin

#9. Better be careful with what you watch or go after cause the same thing that opened Adams eyes closed Abacha's.

Vector

#10. Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.

Tim Hudson

#11. I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

Tatiana Maslany

#12. You can have a great time on a film and the chemistry can seem great but then you look at the finished film and it just doesn't quite gel, something doesn't quite work.

Guy Pearce

#13. I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

Roger Daltrey

#14. Before I die, I want to make sure I have lived.

Mary Papas

#15. I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

Theodore Roosevelt