Staisha Patterson Quotes

#1. His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be doneand secured by your consent to remove to a country beyond the Mississippi ... Where you are, it is not possible you can live contented and happy.

Andrew Jackson

#2. I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."

Carla Gugino

#3. The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

Robin R. Meyers

#4. You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

Doris Lessing

#5. I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.

Kirstie Alley

#6. Who realizes what? That is realization.

Baba Hari Dass

#7. You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, 'Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I'm going to hear all the things I don't want to hear.'

Betty White

#8. Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Peter F. Drucker

#9. Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

Martin Luther King Jr.