Alaskans Get A Government Quotes & Sayings

Are we condemned to be passive victims of our moods? Must we simply say: 'I feel great today' or 'I feel awful today', and require others to live with our moods?
Although it is very hard to control our moods, we can gradually overcome them by living a well-disciplined spiritual life. This can prevent us from acting out of our moods. We might not 'feel' like getting up in the morning because we 'feel' that life is not worth living, that nobody loves us, and that our work is boring. But if we get up anyhow, to spend some time reading the Gospels, praying the Psalms, and thanking God for a new day, our moods may lose their power on us. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Conformity is an imitation of grace. — Simone Weil

This is wishing with your hands. — Jandy Nelson

It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again. — David Lee Roth

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy. — Neal A. Maxwell

Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters. — P. J. O'Rourke

I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again. — Amy Engel

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark. — Audrey Niffenegger

The Quantum Mechanic will fix your car, but it won't work unless you observe him fixing it — Dean Cavanagh

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend. — Samuel Johnson

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,
at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends. — Thomas Carlyle

The voice of the Lord answered from a whirlwind: "Neither am I anyone; I have dreamt the world as you dreamt your work, my Shakespeare, and among the forms in my dream are you, who like myself are many and no one. — Jorge Luis Borges

She wasn't the kind who cared about signs, she moved through the world as if she had a right to be there - anywhere, everywhere. Like a woman in a book, like a girl in a song. — Tony Parsons

No!" Moist's fist thumped the table. "Never say that, Tolliver! Never! Run before you walk! Fly before you crawl! Keep moving forward! — Terry Pratchett

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?' — Courteney Cox

Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people. — Joe Miller