21046 Quotes & Sayings

An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient. — Barbara Brennan

Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's. — Jodi Kantor

Brothers and sisters, as good as our previous experience may be, if we stop asking questions, stop thinking, stop pondering, we can thwart the revelations of the Spirit. Remember, it was the questions young Joseph asked that opened the door for the restoration of all things. We can block the growth and knowledge our Heavenly Father intends for us. How often has the Holy Spirit tried to tell us something we needed to know but couldn't get past the massive iron gate of what we thought we already knew? — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at — Nora Ephron

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am. — Glen Hirshberg

This water is more delicious than the soft kisses from the daubed lips of a dozen nubile maidens — Colleen Houck

I am not trying to seduce you.

"I know that. But please, Mrs. Robinson. This is difficult for me."

"Why is it," she said

"Because I am confused about things. I can't tell what I'm imagining. I can't tell what's real. I can't --"

"Would you like me to seduce you?"

"What?"

"Is that what you're trying to tell me? — Charles Webb

But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart). — Robert A. Heinlein

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game. — Jonathan Sacks