Gertrude Atherton Quotes
Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.Gertrude Atherton
Quotes to Explore
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It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have, probably, the [lower the] risk of causalities.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
Willie Stargell -
It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.
William Jay Smith
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If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln New Mexico. Advise persons never to engage in killing.
Billy the Kid -
I do not regret the end of my first marriage.
Ronan Keating Boyzone -
God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.
Anna Hempstead Branch -
You see how good and evil are twisted together? Like a golden dragon bracelet snaking brightly about a person's arm.
Cressida Cowell -
You'll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.
Deacon Jones -
I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.
Linda Ronstadt
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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Who cares if it's a campaign strategy, and who are other people to say it's ridiculous? I'm not gay, but I strongly support gay marriage. What if someone told you you couldn't marry the one you love? I think it's about time! Let people who love each other that are the same sex get married. They deserve the right to be happy also.
Barack Obama -
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
Francis Bacon -
And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.
Willem de Kooning -
Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like Adolf Hitler, we'd never live it down.
Bill Burr -
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
Gautama Buddha