46th President Quotes & Sayings

People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was. — Gillian Flynn

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go. — T. S. Eliot

Choose an author as you would a friend. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

My body knows not to respond to fake love. I guess maybe that's what it means to have been brought up well. Mom, — Banana Yoshimoto

Theta loved pretty things more than air or food. She had a deep fondness for full red roses, pink shells, and starry sunsets. — Lena Goldfinch

It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a diner and share views with him; you wait behind a customer checking into a motel, a friendly man with a winning smile and twinkling hazel eyes, who's happy to fill you in on his life's story and wants you to like him - odd to think this man is cruising around with a loaded pistol, making up his mind about which bank he'll soon rob.' - Richard Ford, Canada — Richard Ford

What you don't know going in is that when you come out, you will be scarred for life. Whether you were in for a week, a month, or a year - even if you come home without a scratch - you are never, ever going to be the same.
When I went in, I was eighteen. I thought it was all glory and you win lots of medals. You think you're going to be the guy. Then you find out the cost is very great. Especially when you don't see the kids you were with when you went in. Living with it can be hell. It's like the devil presides in you. I knew what I sighed up for, yes, and I would do it again. But the reality of war - words can't begin to describe it. — William Guarnere

We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists. — Azim Premji