Beardall Center Quotes & Sayings

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time. — Charles Krauthammer

I am falling in love with you, Laney Keating."
"Don't say that."
"It's true."
"Don't say it," I said miserably, looking away.
"Why?"
Falling for someone is like pulling a loose thread. It happens stitch by stitch. You feel whole most of the time even while the seams pop, the knots loosen, everything that holds you together coming undone. It feels incredible, this opening of yourself to the world. Not like the unraveling it is. Only afterward do you glance down at the tangle of string around your feet that used to be a person who was whole and self-contained and realize that love is not a thing that we create. It's an undoing.
"Because you deserve better," I whispered. — Leah Raeder

A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly. — Lionel Trilling

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful. — Criss Jami

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. — Lewis Mumford

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own. — Sophia Bush

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer. — Robin Gross