27302 Quotes & Sayings

People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level should be thus handled, and only delegated to a higher authority when necessary. — Peace Pilgrim

Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you. — Assegid Habtewold

I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring. — Janni Lee Simner

You do not lead by hitting people over the head
that's assault, not leadership. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Yeah, I'll always be your friend. No matter what you love. — Stephenie Meyer

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. — Mahatma Gandhi

When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected ... and yet it's doing very well. — J. Michael Straczynski

I know again why I favor it so much here, how I esteem the hush of this suburban foliage in every season, the surprising naturalness of its studied, human plan, how the privying hills and vales and dead-end lanes make one feel this indeed is the good and decent living, a cloister for those of us who are modest and unspecial. [p. 130} — Chang-rae Lee

You have to do more than just talk about work. You have to really reward the people who are out there doing it. — Chris Christie

When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries. — Chris Oyakhilome

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan. — Michael K. Simpson

War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it to war. The means are horrible, certainly. The ends, uncertain. That alone should make you hesitate ... We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities. — Howard Zinn

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death. — Hugo Chavez

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is. — Carlisle Floyd

I have a song deep in my heart, And only I can hear it. If I close my eyes and sit very still ... It is so easy to listen to my song. When my eyes are open and I am so Busy and moving and busy, If I take time and listen very hard, I can still hear my Heartsong. It makes me feel happy. Happier than ever. Happier than everywhere And everything and everyone In the whole wide world. Happy like thinking about Going to Heaven when I die. My Heartsong sounds like this: I love you! I love you! How happy you can be! How happy you can make this whole World be. — Mattie Stepanek