Cherrylyn Villena Quotes & Sayings

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts. — Bill Vaughan

Whoa ... don't go all Kramer on me! — Glenn Beck

There is nothing political about American literature. — Laura Bush

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected. — Charles Darwin

On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already? — Thomas Jefferson

So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. — Socrates

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition. — Yukio Mishima

Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying "My party, right or wrong" is like saying "My Kennedy, drunk or sober." Credibility is earned, and standing up and saying "Fie!" now and then reinforces your truthfulness. — James Lileks

Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world. — J 'son M. Lee

Still, I think it grieves the heart of God when human beings created in His image treat other human beings like filthy rags. — Jonathan Kozol

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography. — Sloane Crosley