Showstopper Emote Quotes

#1. As for the screening process, we already do that for adoptive/foster parents. Why do we cling to the irrational belief that biological parents are necessarily competent parents - in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?

Anonymous

#2. In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

William James

#3. They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Herman Melville

#4. Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

William Shenstone

#5. Perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Hortense Calisher

#6. ONCE HE KNEW HOW to do things in Washington, he started doing them - with the same frenzied, driven, almost desperate energy he had displayed in Cotulla and Houston, the energy of a man fleeing from something dreadful.

Robert A. Caro

#7. No one is promised a tomorrow. She had been wrong about every man she loved or said she loved. She'd been wrong about everything. She'd entered into her life in the middle of its story. She had confused herself with the actress who portrayed her.

Jill Alexander Essbaum