Americans Need 2nd Quotes & Sayings

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't want to wake up and find you're not really here, he whispered, not yet opening his eyes. — Kitty French

You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down. — Sally Field

Strangers shouldn't be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profit. — Melissa McCarthy

Forgiveness was a strange gift. One that had to be shared in order to be kept. — Tamera Alexander

First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes. — Robert A. Heinlein

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary. — Chogyam Trungpa

Mom, Dad, Baby, they were three advanced people with three advanced degrees in psychology - they thought more before nine A.M. than most people thought all month. — Gillian Flynn

The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details ... Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent. — Maimonides

Let me tell you something. Do you know why those Turkish girls cover their faces? You think it's because of religion? No. It's because otherwise no one can stand to look at them! — Jeffrey Eugenides

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. — Tom Robbins