Selfsame Def Quotes

#1. A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier.

Frank Leahy

#2. When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

Sally Field

#3. Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?

Newt Gingrich

#4. I run to feel complete, to feel alive, to feel happy, and to feel free. I run to visit beautiful places, to overcome my fears, and to remind myself - and others - that our limits may not be where we think they are.

Chrissie Wellington

#5. I don't abstract from anything. ... I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

Robert Ryman

#6. Because even if we were struggling, we had goals. It didn't matter that we weren't there yet. What mattered is that we both experienced setbacks, and full-blown failures, but we got up, brushed ourselves off, and kept going-and were making the best of it.

Jamie McGuire

#7. Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

Aldo Leopold

#8. ... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet.

C.S. Lewis

#9. The best thing you can say to someone going through a tragic loss is not that
"It's going to be alright"
It is:
"Hold on tight because this is going to hurt like hell".

JohnA Passaro

#10. Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.

James Donald

#11. Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.

James Freeman Clarke

#12. I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations ... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.

Tyne Daly

#13. How could anyone presume to know the world through the eyes of an insect?

Ian McEwan

#14. They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

John Ford