Canasta Junction Quotes & Sayings

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness. — Neville Goddard

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. — George Washington

Nothing is ever plug and play. — Kimber C. Turner

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty. — Jules Breton

I never dread going back to Congress. — Nancy Pelosi

In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany. — Christian Schwochow

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. — Spike Milligan

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. — Erica Jong

We have to hope, Daniel was saying, that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters. — Ali Smith

This easy obedience to tyrants, which often verged on devotion, always surprised him. He had come to believe that the majority of human beings aspired only to slavery. He had long wondered by what ruse this enormous enterprise of mystification orchestrated by the wealthy had been able to spread and prosper on every continent. Karamallah belonged to that category of true aristocrats who had tossed out like old soiled clothes all the values and all the dogma that these infamous individuals had generated over centuries in order to perpetuate their supremacy. And so his joy in being alive was in no way altered by these stinking dogs' enduring power on the planet. On the contrary, he found their stupid and criminal acts to be an inexhaustible source of entertainment -- so much so that there were times when he had to admit he would miss this mob were they to disappear; he feared the aura of boredom that would envelop mankind once purged of its vermin. — Albert Cossery

Define your week by obedience, not by a number on the scale. — Lysa TerKeurst

Driving yourself insane on the Internet is as easy as checking the weather. — Ben Dolnick

She sobbed and babbled, and the pain of loneliness and fear felt even greater than the agony of her battered body. It choked the air from her lungs. She was alone. Alone with pain. And soon the mountain lion's teeth — Michael Grant

From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed. — Bill Frist