Berendes Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. — Edmund Burke

Rand Paul just came out with an appeal for a new organization that will counter the efforts by Obama and Hillary Clinton to shred the last remnants of our sovereignty by allowing the United Nations to take away our guns.6 And then, of course, they will come and conquer us. The basis for this is that the UN is now debating a small arms treaty.7 Small arms doesn't mean pistols. It means anything less than a tank. These are just slaughtering people all over the world. Hundreds of thousands of people every year are killed with small arms, and a high percentage come from the United States.8 So there is an effort to have some sort of small arms treaty to regulate their flow. In the minds of the Rand Paul libertarians, this is just another effort by this ominous, fiendish outfit, the United Nations, to take away our freedom. Rand Paul is the Republican senator from Kentucky and son of Ron Paul. — Noam Chomsky

The question that drives me hazy is whether it is I or others who is crazy. — Albert Einstein

Whoa, Lone Star," he said, laughing as he looked Zane up and down with a critical eye. "You'll have to buy me dinner before you get that far."

"I already bought you dinner," Zane pointed out as he righted himself and sat down.

"And he's already gotten that far!" Mark added. — Abigail Roux

History works itself out in the living. — Louise Erdrich

A brilliant white light beat pitilessly down, like the fierce desert sun at midday on the French Foreign Legion; the glittering floor dazzled the eye with the cruel desert glare. We walked slowly through the cereals. — Helen DeWitt

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you. — Theophilus London

Becoming is better than being. The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be. — Carol S. Dweck

Another day without being arrested for murder and/or covering up a murder was a good day in my book. — Darynda Jones

True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea. — Sri Chinmoy