Rosenholtz 1989 Quotes

#1. Time was just an act....

Me

#2. The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam's troops killed thousands - Iraqis say tens of thousands - in a counter-offensive.

Richard Engel

#3. If you never make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

If you make the same mistakes more than once, you're not paying attention.

Ben Delaney

#4. People gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and turn with the cards and lose themselves, with the coins, in the slots. They want to know they matter.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

Frank Morton McMurry

#6. Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

Jim Elliot

#7. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself.

Sarah Dessen

#8. Text a guy you like right now, "I'm thinking about you." If he says, "mmm are you in bed?" Never speak to him again he's a lifelong moron.

Dane Cook

#9. Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.

Barbara Tuchman

#10. I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head

Mira Grant

#11. For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Lactantius

#12. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead.

Charles Eames

#14. Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.

Louis Stokes

#15. A man is defined many ways. One of those is the woman he picks to be at his side.

Kristen Ashley