Buccigross Texts Quotes & Sayings

The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet. — Jacques Maritain

You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want. — Spencer Johnson

The world isn't what it once was because there aren't many men like you left. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Red will be made white
Darkness shall become light
Faith will be made sight
Squire shall become knight — Bryan Davis

Louisville, KY - Barack Obama lost Kentucky in 2012 by 23 points, yet the state remains closely divided about re-electing the man whose parliamentary skills uniquely qualify him to restrain Obama's executive overreach. So, Kentucky's Senate contest is a constitutional moment that will determine whether the separation of powers will be reasserted by a Congress revitalized by restoration of the Senate's dignity. — George Will

I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear "no," and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject. — Gavin De Becker

Life taught me an eternal love will demand the worst sacrifices. A transcendent love will split your soul, cleaving you into pieces. A love this strong doesn't grant you sweetness - it grants you pain. And in that pain is the greatest pleasure of all. — Anonymous

It doesn't matter if we're young. If you love someone, and it's right ... We can make it the whole way, Crick. — Deb Caletti

The Strategic Bombing Survey estimates that "probably more persons lost their lives by fire at Tokyo in a 6-hour period than at any [equivalent period of] time in the history of man." The fire storm at Dresden may have killed more people but not in so short a space of time. More than 100,000 men, women and children died in Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945; a million were injured, at least 41,000 seriously; a million in all lost their homes. Two thousand tons of incendiaries delivered that punishment - in the modern notation, two kilotons. But the wind, not the weight of bombs alone, created the conflagration, and therefore the efficiency of the slaughter was in some sense still in part an act of God. — Richard Rhodes

A man ought to live so that everybody will know he is a Christian. — D.L. Moody

I didn't smuggle the dog into the country; I merely caused him to be smuggled out of Baluchistan. — Georgette Heyer