Repurposed Junk Quotes

#1. That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

Alice Hoffman

#2. What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?

Dorothea Benton Frank

#3. You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

Alice Neel

#4. Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.

Margaret Chan

#5. Just because it fits doesn't mean it looks good.

Ann Bruce

#6. My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.

Olaf Stapledon

#7. The greatness of a nation is in its symbols, its gestures, in doing things that are unprecedented. It's why the Americans are falling behind - they built a nation on the idea of doing new things, and now they'd rather sit and pray that the world won't make them adapt too much.

Jaroslav Kalfar

#8. Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

George Best

#9. Those who act like a mirror and show the true face of the nation to the nation itself are the real heroes of the nation, because all a nation needs is to see his real face, to see his faults!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Blankets could be used to make perimeter walls, to keep out an invading army wielding pillows instead of swords.

Jarod Kintz

#11. The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.

Erik Qualman

#12. We treated all of the dead with dignity.

Harry Anderson

#13. The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

Algernon Blackwood

#14. Better to honor the pinch of fear than regret the punch of fang.

Wendy Beck

#15. Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Channing Tatum