Testifies Before Congress Quotes

#1. Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

John Updike

#2. Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things. - as Frank Roennfeldt

M.L. Stedman

#3. 24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel! How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.

Robinson Jeffers

#5. He was obsessed with obituaries. She'd never read them before, he couldn't believe it, to him it was like someone who'd never read the funnies...Michael always wanted to know what they died of- accidental gunshot wounds, overdose, cancer. 'Was it suicide?' That's what he really wanted to know.

Janet Fitch

#6. Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.

Seth Godin

#7. Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

Joan Didion

#8. God has given you grace. Maybe you should give yourself some too.

Todd Stocker

#9. Let's change the world... one story at a time.

Lindsey Owens

#10. I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.

Tony Snow

#11. I don't see myself as a violent guy.

Gene Hackman

#12. Now, that is interesting. It's shitty evidence, but it's interesting." "I live to infotain.

Chloe Neill

#13. Though you wear your fingers to the bone with service, weep your eyes out with repentance, make your knees hard with kneeling, and dry your throat with shouting, if your heart does not beat with love, your religion falls to the ground like a withered leaf in autumn.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

Katharine Whitehorn

#15. But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.

Alan Rusbridger