Sometimes You Can't Quotes

#1. I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

Mos Def

#2. Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#3. I do think whatever the short-term gain for [Donald]Trump might've been by skipping the Fox debate, it was also kind of - it could become a landmark moment. He has now showed the media that he doesn't need them and that he has the people behind him.

Ryan Grim

#4. But to call God "almighty" does cause problems for some. J.I. Packer says, "Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is a matter of worship.

Raymond F. Cannata

#5. life is your challenge, complete it

Andrew R. MacAndrew

#6. I began to swim, an armless silver mermaid, using only my hips to generate motion, until finally my ass scraped against the lake's mucky bottom. I turned then and used my hips and waist to roll three times, until I came ashore near a ratty green towel. They'd left me a towel. How thoughtful.

John Green

#7. He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.

Carolyn Kizer

#8. I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.

Richard Gough

#9. Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy. I first learned this when

Martha Stout

#10. Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error.

Francis Bacon

#11. Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that crisis reaction has become a habit.

Melody Beattie

#12. Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Karl Lagerfeld

#13. I'm not a fan of the facts. Facts change; my opinion never does.

Stephen Colbert

#14. We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the forces that oppose us. But even more than that, we are true believers in the whole idea of justice. Justice is so much on our side, that that is going to see us through.

Cesar Chavez