Second Continental Congress Quotes

#1. Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery. - Author: Stephen Nachmanovitch

#2. The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell
and paints the inside walls sky-blue
and blocks up the door
and says he's in heaven. - Author: D.H. Lawrence

#3. It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful. - Author: Euripides

#4. Some people can work amid chaos or conversations, and some can't - and while there's no doubt an element of brain wiring to it, there's also the possibility of acquiring skills that improve your focus. - Author: Carolyn Hax

#5. I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified. - Author: Lesley Ann Warren

#6. Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes. - Author: George Will

#7. What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world. - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Photographers, like few other kinds of artists I can imagine, have an insanely
personal relationship with their gear. - Author: David DuChemin

#9. Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done. - Author: David Gergen