Schmoke Kurt Quotes

#1. ...the reward for getting through life is getting life itself.

Sue Halpern

#2. Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are 'patches of Godlight' in the woods of our experience.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption, children lured into organized crime and random violence that took the lives of countless innocent people.

Kurt Schmoke

#5. To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. The possibility suggests itself that no dreams, however absurd or senseless, are wasted in the universe. Embedded in the dream is a hunger for its own reification, a demand that imposes an obligation on reality and that grows imperceptibly into a bona fide claim, an IOU clamoring for payment.

Bruno Schulz

#7. Negative thoughts are tenants that charge the landlord rent.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

Kurt Schmoke

#9. Although there are few things easier than throwing on a dress, something about them communicates that you have made an effort.

Tim Gunn

#10. Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

Henry David Thoreau