Boston Legal Balcony Quotes & Sayings

There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what the present gives us and redoubling our efforts; it is hereditary to us to win virtue as the fruit of labour, and you must not change the habit, even though you should have a slight advantage in wealth and resources; for it is not right that what was won in want should be lost in plenty. — Thucydides

Cat tongues are awesome.
Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave — Jude Watson

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world. — George Santayana

I folded my arms. "I don't usually do stakeouts."
"I thought it might be a nice change of pace for you. All that knocking down of doors and burning down of buildings must get tiring."
"I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall. — Jim Butcher

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was right when he claimed, 'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends up in folly.' Political activists are more inclined, though, to heed an observation from Richard Nixon: 'People react to fear, not love. They don't teach that in Sunday school, but it's true.' That principle, which guided the late president's political strategy throughout his career, is the sine qua non of contemporary political campaigning. Marketers of products and services ranging from car alarms to TV news programs have taken it to heart as well.

The short answer to why Americans harbor so many misbegotten fears is that immense power and money await those who tap into our moral insecurities and supply us with symbolic substitutes. — Barry Glassner

But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life. — Ayn Rand

There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist. — Ben Goldacre

But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.' — Daniel Dae Kim

Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk. — Clare Balding

What might not eight years do? Events — Jane Austen

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance. — Michel De Montaigne

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see. — Robert Breault

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility. — Josemaria Escriva