Schuylkill Valley Quotes

#1. She often appeared at my chambers to talk over his lapses; for if, as she declared, she had washed her hands of him, she had carefully preserved the water of this ablution, which she handed about for analysis.

Henry James

#2. When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

Bill Gates

#3. (A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

Margaret Thatcher

#4. Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.

Paul Arden

#5. They were accustomed to being interrupted. Whoever was hungriest to speak, spoke. I wasn't hungry in that same way. I was hungry to listen.

Rachel Kushner

#6. The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.

James P. Hoffa

#7. over 19,000 haiku about Spam - "Spamku" - have to this date been posted online.

Jane Hirshfield

#8. Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

Peter Shaffer

#9. [Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

Gilda Radner

#10. Failure to put faith into action is one of the main causes of people's dreams coming to nothing.

Christopher Dines

#11. Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Tyler never knew his father.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.

Pam Brown

#14. The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

Bernard Moitessier

#15. Some dreams fade away like a current in a stream. Others burn like a light that won't burn out no matter what life throws at you. That's when a dream turns itself into a vision and a true vision won't die

Scott Coner