Studiously De Quotes

#1. It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

Ronald Reagan

#2. The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

Marquis De Lafayette

#3. Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

Li-Young Lee

#4. The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother ... As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#5. Mark it down. God does not save us because of what we've done. Only a puny god could be bought with tithes. Only an egotistical god would be impressed with our pain. Only a temperamental god could be satisfied by sacrifices. Only a heartless god would sell salvation to the highest bidders.

Max Lucado

#6. The pirates wanted my life, Vargen wanted my country, and my regents wanted to paint rainbows over reality and claim all was well.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#7. America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

Robert Reich

#8. Parker and Hardison look like they're having a good time."
"I see," Nate said. "Should we be worried?

Greg Cox

#9. Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

Aldous Huxley

#10. I would rather die today than live in that sick illusion of a town for one more hour. Like prisoners. Like slaves.

Blake Crouch

#11. Everything is firing on all cylinders for me,

Rory McIlroy

#12. Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#13. Unca Jay!"
"How's it going Claire?"
She giggled. "Qwil aaaaawl wet now."
"I can see that. Where's your mama?"
"Gone, gone, gone," Claire sang. "Cwaire pway wid Qwil aaaawl day. Cwaire nebber gowin home.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.

Amy Klobuchar