Unratified Quotes

#1. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Wendell Phillips

#2. The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.

Stephen L. Carter

#3. At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

Terry Pratchett

#4. A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

J.G. Holland

#5. I have never liked the phone. Ten years ago, during a misguided fit of self-improvement, I pasted smiley-faced stickers on the phone in my bedroom and on the one in the kitchen. Then I typed out two labels and taped them to the handsets. "It's an opportunity, not an attack," they read.

Alice Sebold

#6. I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.

Kellyn Roth

#7. [I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.

Gabrielle Hamilton

#8. Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

Graham Chapman

#9. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed. Cronies

Joseph Heller

#10. why is it so hard when i have to but so easy when i want to

Sondra Anice Barnes

#11. Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way.

Karleen Koen

#12. He spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid he could bequeath to guide her.

Emily Bronte

#13. The tensile properties of this unratified truce were abused to the utmost of their enduring when the judge stood slightly in the saddle and raised his arm and spoke out a greeting beyond them.

Cormac McCarthy

#14. There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Martin Heidegger