Wackeen Phoenix Quotes

#1. The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we see it does everywhere, into vanity, the spirit of predominance, acquisitiveness, hate, envy, nationalism, and militarism

Henri Barbusse

#2. Sorry am I to say, I have often observed that I have performed worst when I most ardently wished to do better than ever.

Sarah Siddons

#3. I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

Kelly Ripa

#4. Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are
a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

Ha-Joon Chang

#5. The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#6. The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer.

Ernie Harwell

#7. As Camus' reworking of the myth reveals, liberty can be found in the oddest of places - even Oran or Hades.

Robert Zaretsky

#8. Work can provide the opportunity for spiritual and personal, as well as financial, growth. If it doesn't, we're wasting far too much of our lives on it.

James Autry

#9. I know that people change. I thought ... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. I loved New York for this gift of endless encounters.

Elizabeth Strout

#12. I love you, I whisper, because he has a right to know the truth before I kill him.

A.G. Howard

#13. At five feet, two inches, I am the shortest girl in my class.

Joelle Charbonneau

#14. After such prolonged frowning, it took her some moments to recall what her normal face even looked like, but after several attempts she was able to settle on a reasonable facsimile.

Haruki Murakami