Archived Quotes

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

True religion is real living;

living with all one's soul,

with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Climate is what we expect,

weather is what we get.

We have to fight for equity in every sector of society.

That all men are equal is a proposition which,

at ordinary times,

no sane individual has ever given his assent.

We should not give up

We should not allow

the problem to defeat us.

Progress is impossible without change,

and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed

Only I can change my life.

No one can do it for me

Carol Burnett

I am a slow walker,

but I never walk back.

The way I dress is an extension of my art.

We can make market forces work better for

the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism.

Imagination without discipline is the mother of many useful errors.

Everyone should be respected as an individual,

but no one idolized.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

When you sit on a red

hot cinder a second seems like an hour.

That's relativity.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre,

but they are more deadly in the long run.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language,

and next year’s words await another voice.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid,

and I think a great deal of that grew out of

the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

The problem with writing a book in verse is,

to be successful,

it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon.

It has to sound easy.

When you can do it,

it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on.

You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

It’s all about the long term.