Closson Insurance Quotes & Sayings

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time. — Michel Patini

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet. — Richard Matheson

I've spent my entire career being a satirist. — Al Franken

During the year that the atrocities in the Ukraine occurred, a young Turkish Jew of arresting personality and magnetism announced himself as the Messiah in the city of Salonika. This was the cabalist Sabbatai Zevi. Because the Jews of his day had the will to believe in a supernatural instrumentality that would save them from further disaster, he came as the answer to their prayers. Messianic hysteria swept like a conflagration over all of European Jewry. Tens of thousands liquidated their worldly affairs and readied themselves for the End of Days. — Nathan Ausubel

The indifference of the railway authorities to the comforts of the third-class passengers, combined with the dirty and inconsiderate habits of the passengers themselves, makes third-class travelling a trial for a passenger of cleanly ways. — Mahatma Gandhi

Reality is what people who lack vision see. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. — Chief Seattle

Not one person can afford your dream; the execution of it is too expensive. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

A living faith, a glorious hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude. — May Sarton

The most recent phase of the alternation between Occidentalism and primitivism has therefore concealed the essential thing, the universality of violence. A selective blindness in one of two forms has obscured the fact that all cultures, and all individuals without exception, participate in violence; that violence is what structures our collective sense of belonging and our personal identities. — Rene Girard

I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances, & error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step.
[Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814] — Thomas Jefferson

I'M SO GLAD you're not dumb, Yaz," Neela said. Yazeed shot her a sidelong glace. "I thought you were going to say dead." "That, too. — Jennifer Donnelly

You're going to have a watermelon come out of your flap-jack and that shit will never be the same. Never. - Madison — Nicole Reed