These are Americans who still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do. These are Americans who still dream big dreams - they just sense their leaders have forgotten how. ~Barack Obama, Emily's List Annual Luncheon, 2006 May 11
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli
What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship. This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny. ~Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 2009 Jan 20, Washington, D.C.
Sex is emotion in motion. ~Mae West
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. ~Charles Haas
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. ~Christian Bovee
You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. ~Author Unknown
I never even believed in divorce until after I got married. ~Diane Ford
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. ~Harry Caray
Don't let your dreams go up in smoke - practice fire safety. ~Author Unknown
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love
The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth. ~W.R. Koehler, The Koehler Method of Dog Training
There's more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown
A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums. ~Martin H. Fischer
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. ~I Timothy 5:13
He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ~Proverbs 22:7
You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug. ~Author Unknown
No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson
Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
