Augusta Longbottom Quotes & Sayings

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour. — Thomas Chalmers

I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women. — Edna O'Brien

Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all. — Julia Cameron

I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with. — Lucretia Mott

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. — Barbara Sher

Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish. — Manuel Valls

The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost
to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves. — Michael Pollan

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars. — Elizabeth Warren