Adare Village Quotes & Sayings

But say a man does know. He sees the world as it is and he looks back thousands of years to see how it all came about. He watches the slow agglutination of capital and power and he sees its pinnacle today. He sees America as a crazy house. He sees how men have to rob their brothers in order to live. He sees children starving and women working sixty hours a week to get to eat. He sees a whole damn army of unemployed and billions of dollars and thousands of miles of land wasted. He sees war coming. He sees when people suffer just so much they get mean and ugly and something dies in them. But the main thing he sees is that the whole system of the world is built on a lie. And although it's as plain as the shining sun - the don't-knows have lived with that lie so long they just can't see it. — Carson McCullers

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. - Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers — Kim Edwards

The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events. — Denny Hamlin

It's revealing, then, to look at modern society through the prism of more than a million years of human cooperation and resource sharing. Subsistence-level hunters aren't necessarily more moral than other people; they just can't get away with selfish behavior because they live in small groups where almost everything is open to scrutiny. — Sebastian Junger

I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that. — Bryan Cogman

But then again, we're all on death row, aren't we? Most of us just don't know it. — Lisa Unger

Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel. — Elvis Presley

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared. — Sparky Anderson

Virtue was its own reward. — Louisa May Alcott

All terrific but the people. THE PEOPLE. Everyone looks so exalted, or so wretched, or so spiffy, so funny, so splendid. If you are ever bored or blue, stand on the street corner for half an hour. — Maira Kalman

I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer. — Taylor Hicks