Saint Alphonsa Quotes

#1. It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

Tom DeLay

#2. You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

Faith Baldwin

#3. What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.

Jacques Monod

#4. Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors.

Nancy Pfotenhauer

#5. I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

Flannery O'Connor

#6. I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

John Wooden

#7. We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

Arthur C. Clarke

#8. I actually have a closet that's all shoes, maybe 700 pairs.

Russell Westbrook

#9. A town that does not keep its dead out of sight, that leaves people where they died, on highways and byways, in parks and parking lots, is not a town but a hell. The fact that this hell reflects our life experience in a more realistic and essentially truer way is of no consequence.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#10. I don't leave home without my Skullcandy Crushers. I don't leave home without my Bible, without my phone, and without my computer.

Kyrie Irving