American University Speech Quotes & Sayings

Waking or sleeping, it seemed that she constantly saw that dark body dropping, swift and silent, into the cold, grim sea. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

No regrets. No apologies. — K.C. Washington

Government entomologists and chemical company publicists freely employed metaphors that compared insects and Communists. At Columbia University in 1946, former British prime minister Winston Churchill suggested that Communists should study termites in order to see what their future had in store. Unintentionally clarifying the threatening metaphor, the president of the American Economic Entomologists entitled his 1947 speech "Totalitarian Insects. — Mark Hamilton Lytle

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. — Garth Stein

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness. — Mariska Hargitay

But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all. — Amy Harmon

Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster. — Ben Yagoda

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object. — Richard Rohr

We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained. — Shane Koyczan

We can only know each other the way we know distant stars: by observing years-old light, gathering outdated information, running calculations and making inferences. — Gabriel Roth

So I was thinking ... "
"That's what I smell."
"Geez." I rolled my eyes. "You and Tink have more in common than you want to admit."
"I might have to kick you out of the bed for that."
I snorted. "Um, yeah, you can't kick me out of my own bed. Sorry."
"Whatever," he replied. "What were you thinking about? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Into the depths of Scripture or researched a single Greek word. They simply taught what they knew. I don't know any other — Beth Moore

Instead, so long as Kennedy lived and Khrushchev stayed in power, there was steady movement toward the relaxation of tension - the American University speech, the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the "hotline" between the White House and the Kremlin. — Robert F. Kennedy

I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well ... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.' — Isaac Brock