Comprenew Quotes & Sayings

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. — Edmund Burke

I had no words, and I always had words. — C.D. Reiss

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you. — Laura Schlessinger

Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: "Love. They must do it for love." Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants. They love to live in the presence of animals. They love to work outdoors. They love the weather, maybe even when it is making them miserable. They love to live where they work and to work where they live. If the scale of their farming is small enough, they like to work in the company of their children and with the help of their children. They love the measure of independence that farm life can still provide. I have an idea that a lot of farmers have gone to a lot of trouble merely to be self-employed to live at least a part of their lives without a boss. — Wendell Berry

No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests — Dorothy H Cohen

Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the instability at home that they do in promoting a worldwide answer to the global meltdown. — David Blunkett

This is the last time we run, lass, I swear it," he vowed hoarsely, grabbing her hand. "But this time, we have to run like hell." - Tadhg to his Maggie — Kris Kennedy

But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? — Max Brooks

I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated. — Stephenie Meyer

Tomorrow I have to break Clipper's heart. Really bust it open. - Tea — Jamie Scallion

Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime. — Rosie O'Donnell

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays. — Bill Joy

I looked at her and sighed. In another world, I thought to myself, it might have worked. In another world, in another universe, in another time, as two quite different people, we really might have been able to put all of this behind us, take off to some sun-drenched Caribbean island, and have sex and pineapple juice, non-stop, for a year. — Hugh Laurie

Personal space refers to an area with invisible boundaries surrounding a person's body into which intruders may not come. — Robert Sommer