Usagso Quotes

#1. If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

Wendell Willkie

#2. The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. While Fergus was possessed of dark good looks and a dashing manner that might well win a young girl's heart, he lacked a few of the things that might appeal somewhat more to conservative Scottish parents, such as property, income, a left hand, and a last name.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

John Ambrose Fleming

#5. There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. Every day there was some new tragedy, some new and inexplicable failure of the ordinary.

Robert Goolrick

#7. To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no clear social program that realistically could be implemented (215).

Manning Marable

#8. That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

Alvah Bessie

#9. And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

Gregory David Roberts

#10. What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Pope Benedict XVI