Arajs Quotes & Sayings

Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering. — Pete Earley

Major General Anders later reflected: I think it was the Earthrise that really kind of got everybody in the solar plexus ... We were looking back at our planet, the place where we evolved. Our Earth was quite colorful, pretty and delicate compared to the very rough, rugged, beat-up, even boring lunar surface. I think it struck everybody that here we'd come 240,000 miles to see the Moon and it was the Earth that was really worth looking at. — Julian Barnes

Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot! — Rick Majerus

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment. — Patricia Highsmith

I've done 480-odd films, have my own acting school, won awards, etc. and now host a successful TV chat show - what else can I ask for? Yes, of course, every journey has its ups and downs, but that's part of life. — Anupam Kher

A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance. — Yasunari Kawabata

Being is not very far away. It is the deepest part of love, a love that is absolutely pure, unconditional. A love that is absolutely alert, aware, conscious, immediately turns into a tremendous revolution; it opens the doors of the innermost shrine of being. And to reach to your very center is to gain all that life can give to you: all the fragrance, all the beauty, all the joy, all the benedictions. — Osho

How often we forget all time, when lone Admiring Nature's universal throne; Her woods - her wilds - her mountains - the intense Reply of HERS to OUR intelligence! — Edgar Allan Poe

There was a fellow called Smiley married Ann Sercomb, Lord Sawley's cousin. Damned pretty girl, Ann was, and went and married this fellow. Some funny little beggar in the Civil Service with an OBE and a gold watch. Sawley was damned annoyed. — John Le Carre

I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me. — Scott Stapp

Christmas is about change. It's a time we open our hearts before we open our presents. — Toni Sorenson

And anger is never added to anger. It multiplies. — Sherman Alexie

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats. — Reynolds Price

If I keep my promises to the Lord, He will always keep His promises to me. He [will] always fulfill His end of the bargain - and much, much more - if I fulfill mine. — L. Tom Perry