Bissonnet Houston Quotes & Sayings

Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching. — Woody Allen

Example has far more followers than reason. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better. — George MacDonald

The problem is normal was'nt in my DNA. I was destined to be forever freakish. — Julie Hockley

As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.' — Kate Forsyth

If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done. — Malcolm X

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours. — John McCain

Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals. — Sheldon Richman

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety ... People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare ... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice. — Adam Smith

The worst pain in the world is shame. — Fiona Apple

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you. — Clay Aiken

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. — Albert Einstein

Must one dread what others dread? — Laozi