Streetscapes Mailboxes Quotes

#1. People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

Frederick Lenz

#2. My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

Brad Pitt

#3. When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!

Garth Nix

#5. Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

Marjo-Riikka Makela

#6. I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

George MacDonald

#7. I wandered along to the chemistry labs, more or less on the rebound, and asked about becoming a research student. It was the '60s, a time of university expansion: the doors were open, and a 2:1 was good enough to get me in.

John Sulston

#8. I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

Richard Lugar

#9. The most beautiful women I've ever observed are those that have exchanged a self-focused life for a Christ-focused one. They are confident, but not in themselves. Instead of self-confidence, they radiate with Christ-confidence.

Leslie Ludy

#10. The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. To give away flowers you have to literally cut off their life supply: 'Here you go, it's pretty now but it's rapidly dying and will decompose before your eyes.' It's like giving someone a pet fish without the bowl.

Jules Cassard

#12. No," he said simply, as if this was something he'd known all along. "You're still the same.

Julie Kagawa

#13. Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.

Billie Jean King

#14. Mirages distract us until we die of thirst.

Marty Rubin

#15. When confidence is deemed arrogance..
Happiness and joy deemed showing off self..
Strong words deemed mere big talk and rhetoric..
Small minds..only time will prove and show the truth..

Abha Maryada Banerjee