Blanchon Hard Quotes & Sayings

To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers plying needle and thread. They had been active in committees and commissions, the country over; had learned to work with and beside men, finding joy and companionship and inspiration in such work. How could they go back to the chimney-corner life of the fifties? — Laura E. Richards

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition. — Roald Amundsen

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that. — Lauren Mayberry

Yet, til now, her discipline had less to do with her strict Catholic upbringing than the fact that she hadn't met anybody who had aroused her to the point where she felt it was worth risking purgatory. — Cynthia Freeman

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself. — Elmer Bernstein

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Off the street. Out of the wind. Into a bar . . . like a million other bars . . . bottles of lies to ease pain . . . dollar bills traded to dose the dreams of hungry eyes . . . men transmuted from dust . . . women knitted from dead tomorrows, legs crossed, the language of their painted smiles ready to find the other side open . . . — Joseph S. Pulver Sr.

As soon as you are complicated, you are ineffectual. — Konrad Adenauer

When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight. — J. R. Martinez

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. — Henry A. Kissinger

For nothing is more boring than being forced to play. — Angela Carter

As in an organ from one blast of wind
To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes. — John Milton