Abandoned Buttons Quotes & Sayings

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. — Tom Harkin

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort

I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people. — Edmund Burke

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The missions were always changing- sometimes collecting jars of rain, paper bags of hiccups, adopting lost moonbeams and folding them into cake batter. Or perhaps investigating glittering slug trails left in the moonlight, finding the owners of abandoned buttons, or playing the sousaphone for caterpillars still in their cocoons. — Michelle Cuevas

It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton

The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke. — Ben Aaronovitch

Faith is Hope on a treadmill. Love is the reason we stay on. — Solange Nicole

Charm me into giving you the red M&Ms. They're my favorite.'
I looked Hades in the eyes. 'Give me the red M&Ms.'
'Still not good enough.'
'Give me the damn M&Ms,'I snapped.
He snickered. 'That wasn't very charming. — Kaitlin Bevis

I made my daughter read the whole. That's how you make atheists. — David Silverman

A dreadful suspicion was coming over me. Hadn't my mortal life been nothing but abysmal struggle and trivia and fear? Wasn't that the way it was for most mortals? Wasn't that the message of a score of modern writers and poets - that we wasted our lives in foolish preoccupation? Wasn't this all a miserable cliche? — Anne Rice

If we had more Spiritual teachers around, then perhaps more people would be educated about the inadequacy of the finite to satisfy the Infinite. Physical things come and go; your everlasting soul is forever. — Christopher Sartain

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist. — Don DeLillo