Augural Quotes & Sayings

Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise. — Frank Chodorov

The first principle of recovery is the empowerment of the survivor. She must be the author and arbiter of her own recovery. Others may offer advice, support, assistance, affection, and care, but not cure. — Judith Lewis Herman

Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people. — Richard Lamm

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. — Mary J. Blige

Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all. — Shannon L. Alder

Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn't accept money from strangers. — Alan Abel

Elizabeth Bishop wrote love poems, and poems about lovemaking, and one of the best poems ever written in English about the loss of love, but she had made her way through life as an orphan, a solitary. Reticence wasn't the reason she'd become a poet of the self - of a singular "mind in action," as she'd once described the effect she hoped to achieve in her poems. She had discovered early on, perhaps too early, that she was "an I . . . an Elizabeth" - and she'd treasured that painful, "unlikely" self-awareness ever since, knowing it was the same thing as her imagination. — Megan Marshall

If you know something is true, you don't need to convince anyone of it. If you are trying to convince anyone, it is probably yourself. — Alan Cohen

And can I camping on you to cover my back?
You have to ask?
I wouldn't be asking if I didn't think I had to.
Yes, I'll have your back. Will you have mine?
I've had your back ever since you showed up, Knox.
(John Puller and Veronica Knox) — David Baldacci

We still want what we want. We want a haircut. — Don DeLillo

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city — Aldo Rossi

No delays in expressing decisions. Whether its a Yes or No... Right or Wrong... Just tell that for heaven sake. — Giridhar Alwar